AP Psychology Unit 2: Cognition

Which of the following is a psychological concept related to decision-making?

• Schema

• Prototype

• Heuristic

• Assimilation

What is the process of organizing information into manageable units?

• Encoding

• Chunking

• Priming

• Framing

What is the term for the mental process of acquiring knowledge and understanding?

• Cognition

• Metacognition

• Insight

• Creativity

What is the term for the tendency to search for information that confirms one's beliefs?

• Confirmation Bias

• Fixation

• Insight

• Overconfidence

Which type of memory involves the storage of facts and general knowledge?

• Episodic Memory

• Semantic Memory

• Procedural Memory

• Implicit Memory

What is the term for the mental process of organizing and interpreting sensory information?

• Perception

• Cognition

• Metacognition

• Insight

Which of the following is a strategy used to improve memory by repeating information?

• Rehearsal

• Chunking

• Priming

• Framing

What is the term for the mental process of forming new ideas and concepts?

• Creativity

• Cognition

• Metacognition

• Insight

What is the term for the mental process of using existing knowledge to generate new ideas?

• Divergent Thinking

• Cognition

• Metacognition

• Insight

Which of the following is a type of memory storage?

• Sensory Memory

• Encoding Failure

• Repression

• Constructive Memory