AP Psychology Tutorial Cognition

Sam has recently learned to play guitar quite well, but he cannot consciously remember ever having played guitar. What part of his brain did he likely damage?

• Medulla

• Pons

• Hippocampus

• Hypothalamus

Tim, a third-grader, learns the sentence “George Eats Old Gray Rats And Paints Houses Yellow” to help him remember the spelling of “geography.” What memorization device is Tim using?

• Mneumonic Device

• Chunking

• Methods of Loci

• Repetition

The process of repeating to yourself the name of someone you just met over and over is using what technique?

• Mnemonic Device

• Chunking

• Elaborate Rehearsal

• Maintenance Rehearsal

Recalling the first and last item in a list is called?

• Primacy effect

• Recency effect

• Serial Positioning effect

• Spacing effect

Which part of language acquisition includes a one-word response that expresses an idea?

• morpheme

• holophrase

• phoneme

• Whorf's linguistics

What are words, events, places, and emotions that trigger our memory of the past called?

• receptors

• retrieval cues

• encoding failure

• storage decay

What is the problem-solving term that is quickest way to solve a problem?

• algorithm

• heuristic

• belief bias

• mental set

The term given to someone who sticks to their beliefs no matter what information is presented to them that may be on the contrary to those beliefs.

• representative heuristic

• belief bias

• confirmation bias

• belief perseverance

Which period of language acquisition is time (age) sensitive?

• broca's area

• wernicke's area

• critical period

• Genie the wild child

Generating multiple possible answers to a problem illustrates what kind of thinking?

• divergent thinking

• convergent thinking

• cognitive independence

• cognitive ingenuity