Cognitive Biases

When Michelle heard about the scandal, she shook her head and muttered to Alex, "I knew it!" Her response is an example of which cognitive bias?

• Inattentional bias
• Hindsight bias
• Sunk cost fallacy
• Just-world fallacy

Violeta is terrified of planes. Whenever she boards one, she immediately thinks of all the plane crashes and terrorist attacks that have happened. This is an example of which cognitive bias?

• Confirmation bias
• Halo effect
• Availability heurisitic
• Bias blindspot

Attractive people are more likely to be hired for a position that has nothing to do with their looks. This is due to which cognitive bias?

• Sunk cost fallacy
• Halo affect
• Availability heuristic 
• Confirmation bias

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

A prototype is best defined as

• An example of habituation
• An example of bottom-up processing
• The hypothetical “most typical” instance of a category
• An essential element of category membership

A word or part of a word that is in itself meaningful, but that cannot be broken into smaller meaningful units, is called

• Grapheme
• Morpheme
• Phoneme
• Holophrase

The rules of grammar are rules of

• Phonemes
• Morphemes
• Syntax
• Semantics

Metacognition refers to

• Amnesia
• Mental retardation
• Artificial intelligence
• Thinking about thinking

Noam Chomsky’s view of language proposed that

• There is an inherent language acquisition device
• Thinking is merely subvocal language
• Different levels of language ability are hereditarily determined
• Language acquisition can be explained by social modeling

Semantics

• the system of rules for putting words in order
• the smallest units of sound that carry meaning
• the smallest units of sound that make up language
• the system of using words to create meaning

Benjamin Whorf hypothesis that our vocabulary determines how we perceive the world around us:

• verbal relativity
• linguistic relativity
• semantic relativity
• grammatical relativity