Cognitive Psychology Review

Cognitive Psychologists study

• Mental Concepts

• Problem Solving

• Decision Making

• All of the above

In an attempt to buy the best quality cooking pan, one might assume expensive = best. This is the use of:

• Concepts

• Algorithms

• Heuristic

• Overconfidence

Which of the following is an example of a 2-year-old’s overextension in language?

• Saying "doggie" for every 4-legged animal with tail

• Mispronouncing common words

• Saying "I seed" instead of "I saw"

• Making standard baby noises

Dory repeating directions while navigating the pipes is an example of

• Heuristic

• Concept

• Flashbulb memory

• Rehearsal

Dory's emotional, sudden remembrance of the undertow from her childhood is an example of

• Recognition

• Flashbulb memory

• Sensory memory

• Repetition

Dory suffered from

• Source amnesia

• Retrieval failure

• Encoding failure (Short-term memory loss)

• I don't remember

A mental category that represents a group of objects is called

• Heuristic

• Memory

• Prototype

• Concept

Maximus quits a relatively new job that she had been previously excited to begin. While talking to her friend, she tells him, “I knew I was going to hate that place!” This example illustrates

• Hindsight bias

• Belief perserverence

• Framing

• Overconfidence

To differentiate between someone saying "cat" or "cap" one must pay attention to the different sounds of the last letter, also known as

• Phonic

• Syllable

• Phoneme

• Differentiated emphasis

The smallest unit of meaningful sound in a word that possesses meaning on it’s own is called a

• Syllable

• Question

• Morpheme

• Differentiated Emphasis