2020 - 2021 Unit 5 Cognition

A defense attorney emphasizes to a jury that her client works full-time, supports his family, and enjoys leisure-time hobbies. Although none of this information is relevant to the trial, it is designed to make the defendant appear to be a typical member of the local community. The lawyer is most clearly attempting to take advantage 

• confirmation bias.
• functional fixedness.
• belief perseverance.
• the representativeness heuristic.

In English, it is appropriate to refer to “a pretty bird,” but not to “a bird pretty.”  This best illustrates the importance of:

• syntax.
• semantics.
• morphemes.
• phonemes.

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"? 

• B. F. Skinner
• Benjamin Lee Whorf
• Noam Chomsky
• Hermann Ebbinghaus

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: 

• the availability heuristic.
• functional fixedness.
• an algorithm.
• the representativeness heuristic.

The process of filing information into your memory is...

• Chunking
• Encoding
• Retrieving
• Priming

______ involves maintaing encoded information in memory over time.

• Recall
• Amnesia
• Storage
• Potential

Immediate, initial recording of encoding info. Includes echoic and Iconic Memory

• Short Term Memory

• Sensory Memory

• Long Term Memory

• Working Memory

An image that is flashed before us for only a fraction of a second is captured by our

• Short term memory
• Echoic Memory
• Iconic memory
• Long term memory

Chunking refers to 

• getting information into memory through the use of visual imagery
• the organization of information into meaningful units
• the unconscious encoding of incidental information 
• the tendency to recognize names we can't recall

Procedural memories for well-learned skills such as how to ride a bicycle are typically ________memories. 

• working
• implicit
• sensory
• explicit