AP Psychology Cognitive

Processes that involve changes in an individual's thought, intelligence, and language

• Constructs

• Cognitive Processes

• Pseudoscience

• Science

When someone mentions Ivy League colleges, Trisha immediately thinks of Harvard University. In this instance, Harvard University is a

• prototype.

• mental set.

• algorithm.

• fixation.

Organizing pieces of info into smaller units.

• Rehearsal

• Chunking

• Perserverance

• Encoding

What is the memory process that locates stored information and returns it to consciousness?

• retrieval

• encoding

• storage

• interference

an American psychologist who specializes in the involvement of COGNITIVE processes in classical conditioning focusing on animal learning and behavior.

• Martin Seligman

• Robert Rescorla

• Ivan Pavlov

• Edward Tolman

What is the term for the mental process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses?

• A) Cognition

• B) Perception

• C) Emotion

• D) Motivation

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to search for, interpret, and remember information that confirms one's preconceptions?

• A) Confirmation Bias

• B) Anchoring Bias

• C) Hindsight Bias

• D) Availability Heuristic

In cognitive psychology, what is the term for a mental shortcut that allows people to solve problems and make judgments quickly and efficiently?

• A) Heuristic

• B) Algorithm

• C) Schema

• D) Prototype

What is the cognitive process of selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things?

• A) Attention

• B) Perception

• C) Memory

• D) Learning

Which theory in cognitive psychology suggests that human memory has three separate components: sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory?

• A) Multi-Store Model

• B) Levels of Processing Model

• C) Working Memory Model

• D) Connectionist Model