WorksheetsEd Psych Ch 8 & 9
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
People have a tendency to seek and use information that supports what they already think. This is known as...
Overconfidence bias
Hindsight bias
Belief persistence
Confirmation bias
When you draw general conclusions from specific information, what kind of reasoning is this?
Deductive
Inductive
Reductive
Conjunctive
Which are examples of executive function?
Goal-setting
Flexibility
Counter-factual thinking
Self-control
What is theory of mind?
The ability to recognize that other people have thoughts and feelings
The ability to imagine that other people are capable of misunderstanding or having false beliefs
The ability to think about one's own mind as a thing that creates knowledge
All of the above
"Explicit memory," or the ability to recall an event, word, specific fact, etc, is called...
Procedural memory
Declarative memory
"Implicit memory," remembering intuitively how to do a thing like riding a bicycle, is called...
Procedural memory
Declarative memory
According to the dual-process model, adolescents struggle in making decisions because...
they don't benefit from either cognitive system
they only benefit from the experiential cognitive system
they only benefit from the analytical cognitive system
they only benefit from the reflective cognitive system
What are the five steps in the creative process?
Empathize - define - ideate - prototype - test
Forming - storming - norming - performing - adjourning
Identify - research - plan - implement - examine
Preparation - incubation - insight - evaluation - elaboration
What are obstacles to problem solving
Fixation
Lack of motivation
Inadequate emotional control
Peer pressure
Being unable to solve a new problem because you are stuck on a previous strategy is called what?
(a)
Strategies and rules-of-thumb that help you solve problems (like eliminating answers on a multiple choice test question) are called what?
(a)
Which of these is a step in problem-solving?
Frame the problem
Develop a strategy
Evaluate the solution
Reflect over time
Applying previous experiences and knowledge to learning or problem solving in a new situation is called...
(a)
True or false: mindfulness has a positive impact on a person's critical thinking ability
True
False
Do experts make better teachers?
Yes
No
It depends
What is the encoding specificity principle?
When we reconstruct information, we fit it into information that already exists in our minds
Recall is better for items at the beginning and end of lists than in the middle
Associations formed at the time of learning tend to help with retrieval
Forgetting happens because other information is interfering with retrieving the information desired
Which processes contribute to encoding?
Deep processing
Outlining
Rehearsal
Summarizing
Which contributes to the growth of a child's cognitive resources?
Nature
Nurture
Both
Neither
The most important factor in the shift from behaviorism to cognitive psychology was the invention of what?
(a)
The model of learning that emphasizes that children manipulate information, monitor it, and strategize about it is called...
the information-processing approach
the levels of processing theory
the Atkinson-Shiffrin model
the Wheaton recurrence
