PSY: Test 5: Chapter 7 & 11

What has clearly defined rules for determining inclusion of an object or event?

• natural concepts

• logical concepts

• artificial concepts

• fuzzy concepts

The tendency to base a decision on the examples that most readily come to mind is called

• functional fixedness

• the representativeness heuristic

• confirmation bias.

• the availability heuristic

The process of grouping objects, events, and ideas based on common features is called

• mental imaging

• creativity

• decision making

• concept formation

A mental set is a

• type of means-end heuristic

• tendency to rely on problem-solving strategies that worked in the past

• type of subgoal setting

• form of the backwards-thinking heuristic.

The computer club at your school is programming simple robots. In order to give the robots the ability to perform tasks, which of the following problem solving strategies will be required?

• algorithms

• insight

• heuristics

• trial-and-error

According to Freud, the latency stage occurs at the

• first stage of psychosocial development.

• second stage of psychosocial development.

• third stage of psychosocial development.

• fourth stage of psychosocial development.

Murders are far less common than household accidents, but they generate more news coverage, so this problem might lead you to incorrectly conclude you are more likely to be murdered than to die in a household accident. This is using what form of thinking?

• availability heuristic

• representative heuristic

• mental set

• confirmation bias

According to Freud, at any given time, people are aware of certain thoughts and feelings that constitute the

• preconscious mind

• conscious mind

• unconscious mind

• post-conscious mind

 Freud might say that someone who was displaying excessive aggression was acting according to their

• id

• ego

• superego

• conscience

According to Freud, the Oedipus complex arises during which stage of psychosexual development?

• anal

• phallic

• latency

• genital