AP Psych Topic 5.7 Mr. Sinn YouTube

According to the American Psychological Association, cognition is all forms of knowing and awareness such as perceiving, conceiving, remembering, reasoning, judging, imagining, and problem solving. What is cognition?

• B. Only reasoning and judging

• A. Only perceiving and conceiving

• D. Only imagining and problem solving

• C. All forms of knowing and awareness

What are mental groups of similar objects called?

• D. Schemas

• C. Concepts

• A. Categories

• B. Prototypes

What is the term for specific things that best represent a category?

• B. Prototypes

• A. Categories

• C. Concepts

• D. Schemas

What is the term for making judgments about new information based on existing information?

• D. Mental sets

• B. Heuristics

• A. Anchoring

• C. Top-down processing

What is the term for extremely fast thinking that uses shortcuts and different tricks to speed up the thinking process?

• D. Informal reasoning

• C. Mental sets

• B. Top-down processing

• A. Heuristics

What is the term for a cognitive framework that helps us organize and understand the world around us?

• B. Prototypes

• D. Schemas

• A. Categories

• C. Concepts

What is the term for focusing on solutions that have worked in the past?

• D. Schemas

• A. Categories

• C. Mental sets

• B. Prototypes

What is the term for how we process the relationship between items in our mind?

• A. Heuristics

• B. Mental sets

• C. Mental model

• D. Top-down processing

What is the term for when we take a problem and narrow down the possible solutions to the single best solution?

• A. Algorithm

• B. Bottom-up processing

• C. Syllogism

• D. Diagnosis

What is the term for when we consider a variety of different possibilities and expand on the number of solutions to a possible problem?

• C. Convergent thinking

• B. Bottom-up processing

• D. Divergent thinking

• A. Algorithm