QUIZ #6 Review

What is a mental set?

• The tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, especially a way that has been successful in the past

• The tendency to judge the likelihood of an event on the basis of how readily we can

         remember instances of its occurrence

• The tendency to think of objects only in terms of their normal use

• None of these

True or False: Functional fixedness is the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual function.

• False

• True

Framing effects refer to...

• putting frames on pictures

• putting filters on pictures

• how the information is presented and its connotation; whether positive or negative

• all of these

What is this an example of?

• functional fixedness

• mental set

• availability heuristic

• framing effects

Availability heuristic is estimating the likelihood of events based if instances are __________ ____________ to the mind

• gone

• not available

• absent

• readily available

What is this an example of?

• functional fixedness

• availability heuristic

• framing effects

• mental set

What are the three types of memory?

• Sensory

• Short term

• Long term

• All of the above

True or False: Sensory memory processes stimuli from the environment

• True

• False

True or False: Iconic memory is the same as visual memory

• True

• False

Sound stimuli relates to...

• echoic memory

• iconic memory

• none of these

• both of these