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WorksheetsCognitive Psychology Review
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 18mins
Cognitive Psychologists study
Mental Concepts
Problem Solving
Decision Making
All of the above
In an attempt to buy the best quality cooking pan, one might assume expensive = best. This is the use of:
Concepts
Algorithms
Heuristic
Overconfidence
Which of the following is an example of a 2-year-old’s overextension in language?
Saying "doggie" for every 4-legged animal with tail
Mispronouncing common words
Saying "I seed" instead of "I saw"
Making standard baby noises
Dory repeating directions while navigating the pipes is an example of
Heuristic
Concept
Flashbulb memory
Rehearsal
Dory's emotional, sudden remembrance of the undertow from her childhood is an example of
Recognition
Flashbulb memory
Sensory memory
Repetition
Dory suffered from
Source amnesia
Retrieval failure
Encoding failure (Short-term memory loss)
I don't remember
A mental category that represents a group of objects is called
Heuristic
Memory
Prototype
Concept
Maximus quits a relatively new job that she had been previously excited to begin. While talking to her friend, she tells him, “I knew I was going to hate that place!” This example illustrates
Hindsight bias
Belief perserverence
Framing
Overconfidence
To differentiate between someone saying "cat" or "cap" one must pay attention to the different sounds of the last letter, also known as
Phonic
Syllable
Phoneme
Differentiated emphasis
The smallest unit of meaningful sound in a word that possesses meaning on it’s own is called a
Syllable
Question
Morpheme
Differentiated Emphasis
Using a "rule of thumb" to quickly solve a problem is using a
Heuristic
Mental set
Concept
Bias
Discovering, analyzing, and finding a solution to overcome an obstacle is called
Thinking
Thinking about thinking
Problem solving
Goal setting
When given 6 toothpicks with the task of forming 4 equilateral triangles, most of you were only thinking of 2D solutions instead of 3D. This obstacle is called:
Bias
Heuristic
Spatial bias
Fixation
Our tendency to perceive a problem by using past experiences to frame the problem in a certain way is called
Representative sets
Mental sets
Heuristic sets
Framing sets
When old information prevents you from being able to recall new information, such as calling your new girlfriend by your old girlfriend’s name, this would be an example of
Inactive recall
Forgetting curve
Proactive interference
A break up
Effortful processing can occur only with
Implicit memory
Conscious attention
Chunking
Recalling
The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system is called ________ memory.
Short term
Long term
Flashbulb
Heuristic
A system of signs, sounds, and symbols used to communicate is called
Telepathy
Instinct
A text message
Language
