This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 11 > Class 11 Psychology Chapter 8 Thinking – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Psychology Chapter 8 Thinking Quiz 7 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What term describes the whole, or the organizational patterns that we tend to perceive, emphasizing that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts? A) Gestalt. B) Synergy. C) Holism. D) Integration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gestalt. 2. Fill in the blank:The most typical example of a concept is called a ..... A) Prototype. B) Schema. C) Algorithm. D) Heuristic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prototype. 3. In your friend's family, everyone gets up by 8:00 am every day, including weekends. Your friend tells you that anybody that sleeps past 8:00 am is just lazy. This is an example of a(n) ..... A) Availability heuristic. B) Representativeness heuristic. C) Anchoring heuristic. D) Familiarity heuristic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anchoring heuristic. 4. When asked to think of a ball, Carlos quickly thought of images of baseballs, basketballs, and footballs. Which psychological concept best applies to this scenario? A) Prototypes. B) Convergent thinking. C) Creativity. D) Venturesome personality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prototypes. 5. Recognizing only the negative aspects of a situation, while ignoring the good. A) All or nothing thinking. B) Disqualifying the positive. C) Should statements. D) Mind reading. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Disqualifying the positive. 6. Skinner and other behaviorists have argued that language development is the result of: A) Imitation. B) Reinforcement. C) Association. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 7. An aspect of an intelligence test in which the wording used in questions may be more familiar to people of one social group than to another group. A) Emotional Intelligence. B) Intelligence Quotient. C) Cultural bias. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cultural bias. 8. Which of the following should not be in your appendices? A) Statistical calculations. B) A copy of all materials that were used. C) A copy of blank consent form and debriefing notes. D) Your graphs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Your graphs. 9. Which of the following terms best represents the ability to produce ideas which are both novel and valuable? A) Convergence. B) Creativity. C) Algorithm. D) Representative heuristic. E) Availability heuristic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Creativity. 10. All of the following are American Psychological Association (APA) ethical guidelines for researchers EXCEPT: A) Research may not involve deception. B) Participiation must be voluntary. C) Participants must be informed of potential risks. D) Participants must be offered alternative activities if research participation is a course requirement. E) Particpants' right to privacy must be protected. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Research may not involve deception. 11. What are depth cues that require the use of only one eye? A) Monocular cues. B) Binocular cues. C) Stereoscopic cues. D) Convergent cues. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monocular cues. 12. Fill in the blank:Awareness of one's own thought processes is known as ..... A) Metacognition. B) Cognition. C) Perception. D) Intuition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metacognition. 13. A person flips a coin 10 times and it has landed on tails every time. This person tell you that the odds are that the coin will land on heads this time. (The odds are 50-50, as they are with each coin toss.) This is an example of a(n) ..... A) Availability heuristic. B) Representativeness heuristic. C) Anchoring heuristic. D) Familiarity heuristic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Representativeness heuristic. 14. The child who says "milk gone" is engaging in ..... This type of utterance demonstrates that children are actively experimenting with the rules of ..... A) Babbling; syntax. B) Telegraphic speech; syntax. C) Babbling; semantics. D) Telegraphic speech; semantics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Telegraphic speech; syntax. 15. What is the organization of the visual field into objects (figures) that stand out from their surroundings (ground)? A) Figure-ground. B) Depth perception. C) Color constancy. D) Motion parallax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figure-ground. 16. A label for a class of objects or events that have at least one attribute in common is called a(n) (a) A) A. concept. B) Image. C) Symbol. D) Prototype. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. concept. 17. Which of the following will not appear in the evaluation A) Strengths and limitations of the procedure. B) Modifications that directly address the limitations of the study. C) A link between your study and the theory which you are investigating. D) An evaluation of the experimental method. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An evaluation of the experimental method. 18. Maintaining one's conceptions even after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited is known as: A) The representativeness heuristic. B) Belief perserverance. C) Confirmation bias. D) Functional fixedness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Belief perserverance. 19. The Stanford Prison experiment demonstrated A) The negativeconsequences of groupthink. B) How far people arewilling to go when instructed to do something by an authority figure. C) The power thatsituations can have in changing how people feel, think, and behave. D) The boost that socialfacilitation can provide to individual performance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The power thatsituations can have in changing how people feel, think, and behave. 20. The confirmation bias refers to the tendency to A) Search for information that supports our preconceptions. B) Judge the likelihood of events on the basis of how easily we can remember examples of them. C) Overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments. D) Make judgments in a very inefficient, time-consuming fashion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Search for information that supports our preconceptions. 21. The (a) states that our language affects our basic perceptions of the world. (Language and experience are so tightly related that "language controls thought" .) A) A. Sapir-Whorf theory. B) Linguistic theory (Noam Chomsky). C) Nativist theory. D) Symbolic interactionism theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. Sapir-Whorf theory. 22. Jamie has always hated the color orange. However, once she became a student at Princeton, she began to wear a lot of orange Princeton Tiger clothing. The discomfort caused by her long standing dislike of the color orange & her current ownership of so much orange & black striped clothing is known as A) Cognitive dissonance. B) Opposing conginitions. C) Inconsistent ideas. D) Conflicting motives. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cognitive dissonance. 23. The text defines social psychology as the scientific study of how people ..... one another. A) Understand, feel about, and behave toward. B) Think about, influence, and relate to. C) Observe, understand, and communicate with. D) Understand, predict, and control. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Think about, influence, and relate to. 24. An abstract unit of thought that represents an object or quality; anything that stands for or represents something else A) Symbol. B) Concept. C) Prototype. D) Rule. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbol. 25. What is bounded rationality? A) The ability of people to always make rational decisions. B) The concept of unlimited rational thinking. C) The inability of people to always make rational decisions due to various limits on rationality. D) The process of making decisions without any constraints. 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