Unit 5 Cognition

College students routinely underestimate the amount of time it will take them to complete an assignment. This is an example of

• availability heuristic

• overconfidence

• representative heuristic

• framing

When studying the impact of parental divorce on adult children's views regarding romantic relationships, the attitude regarding romantic relationships can be considered a(n)

• mental process

• conclusion

• action

• ideology

Bobby, a fourth-grader learns an acronym to remember the planets in the solar system is using a(n)

• next-in-line effect

• serial position effect

• spacing effect

• mnemonic device

Margo forgot her pillow on a camping trip. She spent 3 uncomfortable nights trying to sleep. Unfortunately she didn't think to use her down jacket as a pillow. Her oversight is an example of

• confirmation bias

• availability heuristic

• functional fixedness

• representative heuristic

In order to remember the information presented in her psychology book, Jennifer often relates it to her own life experiences. The memory aid she is using best facilitates

• automatic processing

• iconic memory

• the serial position effect

• semantic encoding

Darren overestimates the proportion of family chores he does in relation to what other family members do. It is easier for him to remember his chores than those of his sisters. This illustrates the impact of

• availability heuristics

• representative heuristics

• perceptual set

• mental set

When his teacher mentioned the arms race, George understood that the word "arms" referred to weapons and not body parts. His correct interpretation best illustrates

• morphemes

• semantics

• syntax

• prototypes

The ability to control one's impulses and delay immediate pleasures in pursuit of long-term goals is a characteristic of

• mental age

• savant syndrome

• emotional intelligence

• heritability

In the words lightly, neatly, shortly, the "ly" ending is a(n)

• morpheme

• phoneme

• prototype

• phenotype

Our immediate short-term memory for new material is limited to roughly ____ bits of information

• 3

• 7

• 50

• 24