Unit 5: Cognitive Psych AP Review

Based on his gut feelings, Rodrigo has decided which college to attend. Which of the following decision-making processes did Rodrigo use?

• Deductive reasoning

• Bottom-up thinking

• Top-down thinking

• Algorithm

• Schema

A woman has the tendency to believe that air travel is unsafe because she remembers seeing recent footage of plane crashes. Which of the following cognitive phenomena best explains this scenario?

• Representative bias

• Availability heuristic

• Survivor bias

• Anchoring bias

• Hindsight bias

Which of the following stages of language development best describes s 2-year-old who says, "More drink" and "Where dog" when speaking to his mother?

• Fast mapping

• Telegraphic speech

• Overgeneralization

• Mental model

• Holophrase

In the organization of thoughts, which of the following best describes how our brains might categorize the number 2?

• Algorithm

• Prototype concept

• Artificial concept

• Morpheme

• Linguistic relativity

Which of the following creative thinking terms best describes the inability to see that an object can be used in a way that is different from how it was originally designed to be used?

• Lateral thinking

• Convergent thinking

• Divergent thinking

• Functional fixedness

• Over-confidence bias

Juan is trying to teach his grandmother how to use a new electronic device, but his grandmother has difficulty grasping the concept of new technology. She says that she keeps thinking about the operations of older machines and continually forgets Juan's instructions. What cognitive function best describes this thinking process?

• Elaborative rehearsal

• Retroactive interference

• Retrograde amnesia

• Maintenance rehearsal

• Proactive interference

Which of the following IQ scores is one standard deviation above the mean?

• 115

• 15

• 130

• 100

• 85