WorksheetsUnit VII Cognition AP Psych Baxer
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 45mins
The system that encodes, stores and retrieves information
Chunking
Memory
Sensory experience
Rehearsal
A memory of something that was NOT consciously learned.
Implicit memory
Explicit memory
Retroactive memory
Declarative memory
Denying and/or ignoring information that does not fit our opinions/beliefs.
Confirmation bias
Hindsight bias
Anchoring bias
Availability bias
Phonemes and morphemes refer to
elements of telegraphic speech
basic elements of language
basic elements of concepts
memories stored in the LTM
Your sensory memory is the quickest and is split into two parts, what you hear and what you see. These are called...
Ego and Id
visual-spatial
echoic and iconic
audio and myopic
This researcher is best known for his curve of forgetting.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Noam Chomsky
George Sperling
Benjamin Whorf
On the following list, which would you remember based on the recency effect? 4,9,8,4,2,6,3,6,8,4,2,1,1,5,7
4,9,8
4,2,6
3,6,8
1,5,7
6,3,6
Someone who cannot encode new memories has...
Anterograde amnesia
Long-term potentiation
Retroactive Interference
Proactive Interference
This theorist believed humans were born with the ability to acquire language, meaning children are predisposed to learning language.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Noam Chomsky
George Sperling
Benjamin Whorf
This theorist believed that the language we speak can change how we think. For instance, some languages have more words for "love" than English. Does this mean that they have a greater understanding of what love is?
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Noam Chomsky
George Sperling
Benjamin Whorf
The weatherman in Idaho says there is a 20% chance it will rain & u get ur umbrella. The weatherman in Wyoming says it's and 80% chance of sun & u get ur sunglasses.
This exemplifies prototypes
This demonstrates your concept for weather
This is an example of mental set
This is a demonstration of framing
Which of the following terms best represents the ability to produce ideas which are both novel and valuable?
convergence
creativity
algorithm
representative heuristic
availability heuristic
Which type of creative thinking expands the number of possible problem solutions?
Divergent Thinking
Convergent Thinking
Intrinsic Motivation
Availability Heuristic
Representative Heuristic
What is our tendency to think we know or can perform better or more accurately than we really can?
Confirmation Bias
Overconfidence
Intuition
Insight
Algorithm
The rock musician was hit with a rotten egg while performing his latest hit song. The fact that you can recognize two different meanings for the word “hit” in the preceding sentence demonstrates the importance of
syntax.
semantics.
morphemes.
prototypes.
linguistic determinism.
Elizabeth Loftus did work related to
accurate memories being found during hypnosis
repressed and false memories
the forgetting curve.
the capacity and duration of short term memory.
According to _________ theory, you're not consciously aware of how external stimuli have shaped your behavioral responses.
Constructive memory
repressive memory
episodic memory
priming
Remembering is facilitated when you are in a similar situation or environment as when you encoded it.
Context Dependent Memory
State Dependent Memory
Elaborative Memory
Long Term Memory
Harriet became nervous and forgot the name of her boyfriend's sister. Her forgetting can best be explained by
Context Dependent Memory
State Dependent Memory
Elaborative Rehearsal
Long Term Memory
Remembering how to perform behaviors, like typing on a keyboard, is an example of:
Episodic memory
Procedural memory
Semantic memory
Declarative memory
To gain accurate eyewitness testimony from children, interviewers must
be sensitive to repressed memories.
provide details to the child before the interview
use neutral words that don't influence their answers.
employ leading questions to prompt a response
Which specific area of the brain is important in recalling declarative memories?
The hippocampus
The cererbral cortex
The prefrontal cortex
The amygdala
The basic memory process involves
Encoding, Storage, Retrieval
looking, listening, learning
sensing, processing, remembering
giving meaning to memories
The information model of memory contains
Visual stores, auditory stores and haptic stores
structural, shallow and deep processing
encoding, storing and remembering
sensory, short-term and Long-term memory processes
Memories that are implanted and we believe actually happen even though they did not are called
Flash bulb memories
Reconstructed memories
Semantic memories
False memories
Donna easily remembers the French vocabulary she studied that morning but she finds it difficult to recall the Spanish vocabulary she rehearsed that afternoon. Her difficulty best illustrates:
The spacing effect
Proactive interference
Retroactive interference
State-dependent memory
Which of the following would be predicted by Ebbinghaus’ famous forgetting curve? Several years after learning the dates of important historical events for a college class, students:
will remember most of the dates, and will remember them for years to come.
will remember most of the dates, and will slowly start to forget them.
will have forgotten most of the dates, but what they do remember, they’ll remember for years to come.
will have forgotten most of the dates, but during the years to come, they will again remember what they initially forgot.
Trying to remember information by making information meaningful to you is which encoding process?
self reference encoding
chunking
imagery
mnemonic device
Sam has been assigned to think of a solution for students who struggle with mental health at FHS. He can only think of one solution; sending them to the guidance counselors.
convergent thinking
divergent thinking
out of box thinking
insight
Ben's good friend Jess decided to wait until the night before to study for the Cognitive Test. Ben, on the other hand, took the suggestion of Mr. Baxer and spaced out his review over 4 nights. Ben's strategy was
Distributed practice
Massed practice
Cram practice
Retroactive practice
The last time Mark's computer froze he restarted it and it worked. The next time his computer froze the only solution he could think of is to restart it again.
out of box thinking
divergent thinking
functional fixedness
Mental set
This multiple choice question is an example of what kind of retrieval process?
recall
recognition
reiteration
relearning
The skills needed to ride a bicycle are stored as
implicit memories
episodic memories
explicit memories
echoic memories
Cognitive psychologist now believe that the "central executive" of the memory processes is
Longterm memory
Sensory memory
Working memory
Echoic memory
Iconic memory
Your ability to simultaneously process several stimuli at once is known as
Dual processing
Parallel processing
Sensory integration
Mnemonics
Classically conditioned memories are stored in this part of the brain.
Hippocampus
Frontal cortex
Basal ganglia
Cerebellum
The strengthening of synapses based on recurrent patterns of activity is known as
linguistic determinism
mood-congruent memory
long-term potentiation
deep processing
