Cognition

"Eat, Poppa, eat.  You're going to disappoint the children. They expect a fat Santa."

• representativeness heuristic
• functional fixedness
• creativity
• confirmation bias

Place an "s" at the end of "present".

• phoneme
• convergent thinking
• morpheme
• concept

Organizing items into familiar, manageable units.

• chunking
• mnemonic
• relean
• recall

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

• Repressive Memories
• Proactive Interference
• Retroactive Interference
• Memory Decay

Last year, Zoe was taught by Mrs Hopper. This year, Mrs Hopper teaches Zoe’s sister, Pia, but she often calls Pia by Zoe’s name. This is known as

• retrograde amnesia.
• anterograde amnesia.
• proactive interference.
• retroactive interference.

The idea that we remember the first and last items in a list the best. 

• serial-position effect
• chunking
• visual encoding
• semantic encoding

Kasey is having trouble learning French because she finds that having learned Spanish earlier makes it more difficult for her to now learn French. This is known as

• proactive interference.
• retroactive interference.
• decay.
• encoding failure.

Kim is having trouble remembering her old phone number even though she had that number for ten years. It seems that her current phone number that she has had for two years is keeping her from remembering her old phone number. This is called

• proactive interference.
• retroactive interference.
• decay.
• suppression.

When instances come readily to mind, we often presume such events are common. What of the following is the term for this phenomenon?

• Intuition insight

• Confirmation bias

• Belief perserverance

• Availability heurisitic

Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they match our prototype.

• availability heuristics

• representative heuristics

• base rate heuristics

• functional fixedness