Cognitive Psychology AP Unit Test Review

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Pablo vainly searches for a screwdriver while failing to recognize that a readily available coin in his pocket would turn the screw. His oversight best illustrates:

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functional fixedness.

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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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Who was the first to investigate intelligence to determine a person's mental age?

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Alfred Binet

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Our mental image that best represents a category is called a...

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Prototype

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Which type of creative thinking expands the number of possible problem solutions?

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Divergent Thinking

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Which type of problem solving technique is methodical, logical, and will always lead to a correct answer if there is one? Options: Heuristic, Insight, Algorithm, Convergent Thinking, Divergent Thinking

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Algorithm

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In trying to solve a potentially complicated problem quickly, we are most likely to rely on

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heuristics.

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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

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the representativeness heuristic.

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Morphemes

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the smallest units of sound that carry meaning

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Phonemes

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the smallest units of sound that make up language