The debate about the relative contributions of biology and experience to human development is most often referred to as what?

• Evolutionary analysis

• Behaviorism 

• The cognitive revolution

• The nature-nurture issue

The process of getting information into memory is called_______

• priming

• chunking

• encoding

• storing

Which of the following processes is likely to result in the best memory for words?

• visual encoding

• acoustic encoding

• rote memorization

• semantic encoding

What is the ability to focus on a specific stimulus while ignoring others?

• Change blindness

• Inattentional blindness

• Transduction

• Selective attention

Maintaining one's conceptions even after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited is known as: 

• the representativeness heuristic.

• belief perseverance.

• confirmation bias.

• functional fixedness.

What is the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information to give it meaning?

• Sensation

• Psychophysics

• Perception

• Transduction

What is the term for stimuli that are below our absolute threshold and therefore we are unable to consciously perceive them?

• Ultraliminal

• Infraliminal

• Subliminal

• Supraliminal

What is the tendency to perceive and interpret sensory information in a particular way based on our expectations and prior experiences?

• Weber's effect

• Priming

• Perceptual set

• Sensory adaptation

What is the phenomenon in which we fail to notice unexpected objects or events when our attention is focused elsewhere?

• Selective attention

• Transduction

• Change blindness

• Inattentional blindness

Which term refers to the inability to recall past memories after a brain injury?

• Retrograde Amnesia

• Acronym/Acrostic

• Algorithms

• Anterograde Amnesia