AP Psych - Cognition and Intelligence

When someone mentions fast food, you immediately picture a burger from McDonald's. Here, McDonald's is your _______.

• Prototype

• Priming

• Heuristic

• Peg-word

People are more likely to respond better to you telling them that they have a 60% chance of passing a class than telling them they have a 40% chance of failure. What kind of influence does this example demonstrate?

• Priming

• Framing effects

• Context effects

• Encoding

There is a man who is tall, athletic and has big hands. You see him among a group of friends and are told that one is a basketball player, another is a hockey player and the third is a soccer player. If you assume that he is the basketball player, you are influenced by

• The representative heuristic

• Retrograde amnesia

• Algorithmic decay

• The availability heuristic

A friend tells you a story about a man who swam with sharks in the Caribbean. A month later, you tell a friend that you read an amazing article in the New York times about a man who swam with sharks. This example shows

• Misusing heuristics

• Source amnesia

• Anterograde amnesia

• Convergent thinking

What is being demonstrated when you believe that women are better caregivers than men, and you continue to see only good examples of females being better parents than men?

• Mental set

• Convergent thinking

• Confirmation bias

• Functional fixedness

Computers and mathematics often use logical, methodical step by step procedures called

• Mental sets

• Algorithms

• Heuristics

• Cognitive mapping

A patient arrives to the ER with a head injury. After a brain scan, he is shown to have significant damage to the hippocampus. This patient will most likely

• Have limited fight or flight response.

• Be unable to remember how to play the piano.

• Suffer from long-term potentiation.

• Be unable to remember new semantic information, like birthdays.

Which of the following implicit memories is most likely processed by the cerebellum?

• Your locker combination.

• The memory of the time you went to Cape Cod with your family.

• Writing your name on a piece of paper

• Remembering to pick up groceries after school.

Jose is thinking of the basic concept of a "cat." Which of these concepts below is superordinate?

• Tabby cat

• Dog

• Cow

• Animal

Alma is thinking of the basic concept of cookies. Which of the following concepts is subordinate?

• Food

• Oreos

• Cakes

• Dessert items