4.2 - Cognition

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When someone mentions fast food, you immediately picture a burger from McDonald's. Here, McDonald's is your _______.

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Prototype

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There is a man who is tall, athletic and has big hands. You see him among a group of friends and are told that one is a basketball player, another is a hockey player and the third is a soccer player. If you assume that the tall man is the basketball player, you are influenced by

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The representative heuristic

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Steve's house is constantly needing repairs. He wants to move into a small apartment abroad, but he has invested so many hours completing DIY projects at home that he is hesitant to move. This best illustrates

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The sunk cost fallacy

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A patient arrives to the ER with a head injury. After a brain scan, he is shown to have significant damage to the hippocampus. This patient will most likely

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Be unable to remember new semantic information, like birthdays.

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Which of the following implicit memories is most likely processed by the cerebellum? The process of writing your name on a piece of paper, The memory of the time you went to Cape Cod with your family., Writing your name on a piece of paper, Remembering to pick up groceries after school.

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Writing your name on a piece of paper

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To find nail polish at CVS, Sally starts at one side of the store and goes down every single aisle until she finds it. In this case, Sally is using a(n) _________ to problem solve.

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Algorithm

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To solve an equation that he's never seen before, Cayden uses the problem solving strategy that worked successfully on 3 practice problems in class. This demonstrates Cayden's use of

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a mental set

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When she got cold in the movie theater, Kari used her winter coat as a blanket. Because she could imagine another use for her coat, Kari was able to avoid

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functional fixedness

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A creative professional, such as a screenwriter or a sculptor, probably scores highly on tests that measure which of the following cognitive concepts?
Options: Algorithmic thinking, Functional fixedness, Divergent thinking, Belief perseverance

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Divergent thinking

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In order to create a prototype for his engineering design competition, Alex collects data to create one concrete model that fits all of the qualifications. In this scenario, Alex is illustrating

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Convergent thinking