Lorton Psychology: Chapter 7

If the principles of social learning theory are true, then children may model aggressive behavior __________.

• after dreaming about having a fight with their parents

• after dreaming they were on television

• after seeing a television character being punished for taking violent action against another character

• after seeing a television character receive a reward for taking violent action against another character.

_______ are categories or groupings of linguistic information, images, ideas, or memories, such as life experiences.

• beliefs

• concepts

• emotions

• values

________ encompasses the processes associated with perception, knowledge, and problem solving, judgment, language, and memory.

• Cognition

• Personality

• Conceptualization

• Priming

Knowing what a rainbow looks like because you have seen a rainbow is an example of a(n) __________ concept.

• Modular

• Natural

• Prototypical

• Artificial

Samara meets a nurse. She immediately assumes he is able to help care for sick people, works long hours, and dispenses advice about illness because her __________ schema suggests that nurses behave this way.

• Artifical

• Event

• Role

• Script

A(n) ___________ is a basic sound unit of a given language.

• Syllable

• Morpheme

• Phoneme

• Syntactic Unit

A __________ is the smallest unit of language that conveys some type of meaning.

• Letter

• Morpheme

• Phoneme

• Syllable

Which term refers to the process by which we derive meaning from morphemes and words?

• Interpretation

• Language

• Semantics

• Syntax

Which concept is a type of mental set where you cannot perceive an object being used for something other than what is was designed for?

• Anchoring Bias

• Functional Fixedness

• Hindsight Bias

• Representative Sample

What is confirmation bias?

• believing the event you just experienced was predictable

• focusing on information that confirms your existing beliefs

• focusing only on one piece of information when making a decision

• stereotyping someone or something unintentionally