AP Psych- Unit 5 Review (Cognitive Psychology)

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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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Which of the following types of tests is designed to measure an individual’s knowledge of a subject? Achievement, Attitude, Aptitude, Projective

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Achievement

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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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According to the serial position effect, you will remember more: items at the beginning and end of a list, than in the middle.

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items at the beginning and end of a list, than in the middle.

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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

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Elaborative Rehearsal

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Which language theorist would have been most likely to emphasize that children master the rule for forming the past tense of regular verbs like "push" before they learn common past tense constructions of irregular verbs like "go"?

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Noam Chomsky

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eyewitness testimony

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Elizabeth Loftus