Class 11 Psychology Chapter 8 Thinking Quiz 16 (25 MCQs)

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1. When the word "oat" is changed to the word "boat, " the number of:
2. How does the availability heuristic influence our thinking?
3. Thinking with your feelings.
4. Professor Kelley is interested in evaluating the ability of a new method of note-taking to improve student grades. Group A is trained in the new method and group B uses the traditional outline method of taking notes. What is the independent variable?
5. Syesthesia is a phenomenon that has been estimated to occur in only a few people in a million. Because of its rarity, researchers are likely to choose which research method to study it?
6. Which of the following statements is true about the Wason selection task?
7. In English, it is appropriate to refer to "a pretty bird, " but not to "a bird pretty." This best illustrates the importance of:
8. What is the main focus of humanistic psychology?
9. Kara gets an F on her social psychology exam. Then she goes home and gets into an argument with her roommate, Lee. Lee assumes Kara is yelling at him because she is just a nasty person, and does not consider that she may just have had a bad day and is venting. Lee is demonstrating .....
10. After the mechanical breakdown of the Apollo 13 spacecraft, the ground crew on Earth had to figure out a way for the astronauts to construct a carbon dioxide filter out of various items that were on the ship. They did so successfully. This is an example of:
11. Explain how the concept of "functional fixedness" can hinder problem-solving.
12. Grammar
13. What are the three parts of the triarchic theory of intelligence according to Robert Sternberg?
14. Who argued for a classification of nine independent intelligences, which include musical, spatial, and bodily-kinesthetic aptitudes?
15. A test designed to assess what a person has learned.
16. When we study historical documents, it is important to ..... or look at what other sources say.
17. Which perspective in psychology focuses on observing behavior?
18. When instances come readily to mind, we often presume such events are common. What of the following is the term for this phenomenon?
19. What is Divergent Thinking?
20. What is linguistic determinism?
21. The tendency to conclude that a person who likes to read poetry is more likely to be a college professor of classics than a truck driver illustrates the use of
22. Interpersonal and intrapersonal abilities needed to understand and use knowledge of emotions effectively.
23. A memory of something that was NOT deliberately learned or recalled.
24. Which psychological theory suggests that people make decisions based on the potential value of losses and gains rather than the final outcome?
25. Way in which words are arranged to make phrases and sentences