AP Psych Unit 5 Quiz 5.6-5.8

A dog bit Sam when he was a small child and now Sam believes all dogs bite. Which of the following is a type of reasoning that Sam is using to come to this conclusion?

• Deductive Reasoning

• Inductive Reasoning

• Iconic

• Echoic

• Explicit

A prototype is best defined as

• an example of habituation

• an example of bottom-up processing

• the equivalent of feature abstraction

• the hypothetical "most typical" instance of a category

Achariya is lost. She quickly scans the crowd and decides to ask an elderly woman for directions because she believes the woman will be kind. Which method of problem solving did Achariya most likely use?

• Availability Heuristic

• Algorithm

• Representativeness Heuristic

• Common Sense

Bailey and Marcus packed everything they thought they would need for a weekend camping trip. When it rained and they realized they had not brought rain gear, Bailey said, “I knew we should have packed raincoats!” Bailey’s thinking illustrates which of the following concepts?

• Prospective Memory

• Hindsight Bias

• Flashbulb Memory

• Common Sense

Brad hears a report on the evening news that diets low in carbohydrates are beneficial to one’s health. Considering this advice, he begins such a diet. Later he hears another report condemning low-carbohydrate diets as harmful to one’s health. Based upon research on belief perseverance, how would Brad respond to this new information?

• Decide to begin a low-calorie diet and increase his physical activity

• Believe the second news story and discontinue his diet

• Continue to believe in the beneficial effects of low-carbohydrate diets

• Study low-carbohydrate diets on his own

When trying to solve a problem, Bret uses a logical, step-by-step formula called

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

NGSS.MS-ETS1-4

The cerebellum is most directly involved in

• forming emotional memories

• Storing procedural memories

• judgment, higher-order cognition, and personality

• sensory processing and relaying

• motor learning

When Cory is given a logic problem to solve, he systematically tries every possible solution until he finds the correct answer. Cory’s strategy is to use

• Heuristic

• Algorithm

• Mneumonic

• Insight

Denny does not have wrapping paper to use to wrap a birthday present, and so he decides to use colorful newspaper comics instead. Denny’s solution demonstrates that he has overcome

• Functional Fixedness

• the fundamental attribution error

• Egocentrism

• Self-serving bias

On a fishing trip, Ed realizes that he has mistakenly packed the sewing box instead of the tackle box. He wants to fish but returns home because he does not have any line or hooks. Ed's failure to realize that sewing thread can be used as fishing line and that a bent needle can be used as a hook is an example of

• poor problem representation

• cognitive accommodation

• backward masking

• functional fixedness