No.2 Retake Review AP Psychology: Cognition

Ana is instructed by her doctor to wear a patch over one eye. While wearing the patch, Ana will lose her ability to use which of the following depth perception cues?

• Relative size
• Interposition
• Linear perspective
• Retinal disparity

Cognitive theorists emphasize the

• powerful unconscious impulses that motivate behavior
• formation and modification of schemas
• impact of rewards and punishments
• individual’s desire to become self-actualized

Convergence is a binocular depth cue that is based on which of the following?

• Change in the size of the pupil
• Muscular tension that leads to the lens changing shape
• Muscular tension that occurs when the eyes turn inward
• Fact that there are more rods on the periphery of the retina

The Gestalt principle that refers to an individual’s tendency to perceive an incomplete figure as whole is called

• figure-ground
• closure
• proximity
• shape constancy

Initially, intelligence quotients were calculated on the basis of a person’s mental and chronological ages. Using that approach, a person with a mental age of 12 and an intelligence score of 120 would have a chronological age of

• 10

• 12

• 14

• 16

When confronted with the sequence “__N __” at the end of a word in a crossword puzzle, Tony inserts the letters “I” and “G”. This example illustrates the use of

• elaborative rehearsal
• a heuristic
• a prototype
• a syllogism

Denny does not have wrapping paper to use to wrap a birthday present, and so he decides to use colorful newspaper comics instead. Denny’s solution demonstrates that he has overcome

• functional fixedness
• the fundamental attribution error
• cognitive dissonance
• egocentrism

Hillary glances at a graph and then turns her head away. When she tries to remember what she saw, which of the following types of memory does Hillary use?

• Iconic
• Declarative
• Implicit
• Echoic

Memories of well-learned skills, such as riding a bicycle, are classified as

• iconic
• semantic
• echoic
• procedural

Elena is presented with a list of 20 numbers. When asked to recall this list, she remembers more numbers from the beginning than from the end of the list. This phenomenon demonstrates which of the following effects?

• Mnemonic
• Primacy
• Recency
• Clustering