This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 11 > Class 11 Psychology Chapter 8 Thinking – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Psychology Chapter 8 Thinking Quiz 16 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When the word "oat" is changed to the word "boat, " the number of: A) Phonemes increases, butthe number of morphemes stays the same. B) Phonemes and morphemes are bothincreased. C) Phonemes and morphemes both staythe same. D) Phonemes stays the same, but thenumber of morphemes increases. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phonemes increases, butthe number of morphemes stays the same. 2. How does the availability heuristic influence our thinking? A) It makes us rely on information that's easily accessible in memory. B) It helps us avoid available but unreliable information. C) It encourages us to seek out new, unavailable information. D) It makes us distrust readily available data. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It makes us rely on information that's easily accessible in memory. 3. Thinking with your feelings. A) Personalization. B) Emotional reasoning. C) Minimization. D) Emotional justification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emotional reasoning. 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? A) Method of note-taking. B) Grades. C) Group membership. D) The subject matted used. E) The number of students per group. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Method of note-taking. 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? A) Naturalistic observation. B) Correlational research. C) Survey research. D) Case study. E) Experimental research. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Case study. 6. Which of the following statements is true about the Wason selection task? A) When people are trained in how to do the task, they no longer make errors. B) People tend to be able to explain their decisions to the researcher. C) People get better at the task the older they get. D) People make fewer errors when the task is put into a context which they understand, rather than an abstract task. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People make fewer errors when the task is put into a context which they understand, rather than an abstract 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: A) Syntax. B) Semantics. C) Morphemes. D) Phonemes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syntax. 8. What is the main focus of humanistic psychology? A) Observing behavior. B) Understanding the unconscious mind. C) Studying cognitive processes. D) Recognizing individual potential and personal growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Recognizing individual potential and personal growth. 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 ..... A) Groupthink. B) The self-serving bias. C) The actor-observer effect. D) The fundamental attribution error. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The fundamental attribution error. 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: A) Convergent thinking. B) Recombination. C) Functional fixedness. D) Double thinking. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Recombination. 11. Explain how the concept of "functional fixedness" can hinder problem-solving. A) It encourages creative thinking. B) It limits the ability to see objects as having multiple uses. C) It enhances the ability to solve problems quickly. D) It promotes the use of algorithms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It limits the ability to see objects as having multiple uses. 12. Grammar A) The system of rules for acceptable language. B) The smallest units of sound that carry meaning. C) The system of rules for putting words in order. D) The system of using words to create meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The system of rules for acceptable language. 13. What are the three parts of the triarchic theory of intelligence according to Robert Sternberg? A) Practical, creative, and analytical intelligence. B) Crystallized, fluid, and general intelligence. C) Emotional, social, and practical intelligence. D) Logical, spatial, and musical intelligence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Practical, creative, and analytical intelligence. 14. Who argued for a classification of nine independent intelligences, which include musical, spatial, and bodily-kinesthetic aptitudes? A) Charles Spearman. B) Howard Gardner. C) William Stern. D) Robert Sternberg. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Howard Gardner. 15. A test designed to assess what a person has learned. A) Achievement test. B) Aptitude test. C) Algorith. D) IQ test. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Achievement test. 16. When we study historical documents, it is important to ..... or look at what other sources say. A) Ignore. B) Corroborate. C) Contextualize. D) Source. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Corroborate. 17. Which perspective in psychology focuses on observing behavior? A) Structuralism. B) Functionalism. C) Psychodynamic. D) Behavioral. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Behavioral. 18. When instances come readily to mind, we often presume such events are common. What of the following is the term for this phenomenon? A) Intuition insight. B) Confirmation bias. C) Belief perserverance. D) Availability heurisitic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Availability heurisitic. 19. What is Divergent Thinking? A) Multiple possible solutions, fostering creativity. B) A process of eliminating all options except one. C) A method of memorizing facts quickly. D) A way to follow strict rules without deviation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Multiple possible solutions, fostering creativity. 20. What is linguistic determinism? A) The idea that language determines the way we think. B) The theory that all languages are equally complex. C) The process of one language becoming dominant globally. D) The belief that thinking occurs without language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The idea that language determines the way we think. 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 A) The availability heuristic. B) Confirmation bias. C) The framing effect. D) Belief perseverance. E) The representativeness heuristic. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) The representativeness heuristic. 22. Interpersonal and intrapersonal abilities needed to understand and use knowledge of emotions effectively. A) Emotional Intelligence. B) Intelligence Quotient. C) Cultural bias. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emotional Intelligence. 23. A memory of something that was NOT deliberately learned or recalled. A) Implicit memory. B) Explicit memory. C) Retrieval cues. D) Acoustic memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Implicit memory. 24. Which psychological theory suggests that people make decisions based on the potential value of losses and gains rather than the final outcome? A) Prospect Theory. B) Classical Conditioning. C) Operant Conditioning. D) Social Learning Theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prospect Theory. 25. Way in which words are arranged to make phrases and sentences A) Syntax. B) Semantics. C) Heuristics. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syntax. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesClass 11 Psychology Chapter 8 Thinking Quiz 1Class 11 Psychology Chapter 8 Thinking Quiz 2Class 11 Psychology Chapter 8 Thinking Quiz 3Class 11 Psychology Chapter 8 Thinking Quiz 4Class 11 Psychology Chapter 8 Thinking Quiz 5Class 11 Psychology Chapter 8 Thinking Quiz 6Class 11 Psychology Chapter 8 Thinking Quiz 7Class 11 Psychology Chapter 8 Thinking Quiz 8Class 11 Psychology Chapter 8 Thinking Quiz 9Class 11 Psychology Chapter 8 Thinking Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books