AP Psychology Unit 2 Cognition

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To find Tabasco sauce in a large grocery store, you could systematically search every shelf in every store aisle. This best illustrates problem solving by means of:

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an algorithm.

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A teacher asks students to think of as many uses for a brick as possible. By listing 50 uses, most of which the class finds new and unusual, Susan is displaying

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Divergent thinking

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Ed’s failure to realize that sewing thread can be used as fishing line and that a bent needle can be used as a hook is an example of

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Functional fixedness

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If you watch a sequel to a movie, and have trouble remembering if a character was in the first movie, you are experiencing...

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Retroactive Interference

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You are used to driving a car with a standard shift. Today you are driving a friend’s car that has an automatic transmission. As you drive, you keep trying to shift gears, but there is no shift. This tendency is most likely due to:

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proactive interference.

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Attach meaning to info through “deep processing” to remember: Semantic Rehearsal, Elaborative Rehearsal, Maintenance Rehearsal, Acoustic Retrieval

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Elaborative Rehearsal

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What type of forgetting might be at work in the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon when we feel we are about to remember a name but it remains elusive?

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retrieval failure

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Advertisers know that a thirty-three percent discount sounds like a better deal than a discount of one third. This best illustrates:

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framing.

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During her psychology test, Kelsey could not remember the meaning of the term proactive interference. Surprisingly, however, she accurately remembered that the term appeared on the fourth line of a left-hand page in her textbook. Her memory of this incidental information is best explained in terms of

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automatic processing.

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The use of heuristics rather than algorithms is most likely to

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save time in arriving at solutions to problems.