Class 11 Psychology Chapter 8 Thinking Quiz 7 (25 MCQs)

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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?
2. Fill in the blank:The most typical example of a concept is called a .....
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) .....
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?
5. Recognizing only the negative aspects of a situation, while ignoring the good.
6. Skinner and other behaviorists have argued that language development is the result of:
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.
8. Which of the following should not be in your appendices?
9. Which of the following terms best represents the ability to produce ideas which are both novel and valuable?
10. All of the following are American Psychological Association (APA) ethical guidelines for researchers EXCEPT:
11. What are depth cues that require the use of only one eye?
12. Fill in the blank:Awareness of one's own thought processes is known as .....
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) .....
14. The child who says "milk gone" is engaging in ..... This type of utterance demonstrates that children are actively experimenting with the rules of .....
15. What is the organization of the visual field into objects (figures) that stand out from their surroundings (ground)?
16. A label for a class of objects or events that have at least one attribute in common is called a(n) (a)
17. Which of the following will not appear in the evaluation
18. Maintaining one's conceptions even after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited is known as:
19. The Stanford Prison experiment demonstrated
20. The confirmation bias refers to the tendency to
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" .)
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
23. The text defines social psychology as the scientific study of how people ..... one another.
24. An abstract unit of thought that represents an object or quality; anything that stands for or represents something else
25. What is bounded rationality?