WorksheetsUnit 5 Cognition Quick Check
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
The ability to recall and mentally re experience specific episodes from one’s personal past
episodic memory
prospective memory
context-dependent memory
semantic memory
Conscious, long-term memory for meaning, understanding, and conceptual facts about the world
semantic memory
implicit memory
procedural memory
short term memory
the conscious recollection of experiences, events and information used in everyday life.
explicit memory
sensory memory
implicit memory
state-dependent memory
information we do not store purposely and is unintentionally memorized
implicit memory
explicit memory
mood-congruent memory
semantic memory
Because it has all of the features commonly associated with the concept bird, a robin is considered a
prototype
schematic
algorithm
heuristic
Compared to convergent thinkers, to solve a problem divergent thinkers are more likely to:
Think creatively and generate multiple answers
process information to arrive at the single best answer
Problem solve in a systematic step-by-step fashion
Use algorithms rather than heuristics to arrive at a solution
If you studied French in high school, you might have a hard time learning Spanish vocabulary words in college because of:
proactive interference
retroactive interference
maintanence rehearsal
declarative memory
Retrograde amnesia is a phenomenon in which a person suffers a brain injury from a stroke or an accident and loses the ability to remember:
Events immediately before the injury
Events immediately after the injury
Newly formed declarative memories
Procedural memories
What part of the brain is implicit memory found?
cerebellum
hippocampus
frontal lobe
hypothalamus
Working memory is most active during which portion of the information-processing model?
short term memory
sensory memory
long term memory
semantic memory
The Ebbinghaus forgetting curve shows:
A steep initial drop in retention followed by a gradual decline
A steady, gradual decrease of memory over time
A gradual drop in retention followed by a steep decline
Higher retention for rote learning than for concept learning
Which of the following is an example of prospective memory?
Remembering to buy your sister a birthday present next week
Remembering how to play checkers
Remembering how to ride a bike
Remembering the capital of Georgia
a mental shortcut or “rule of thumb” that helps us make judgments when information
heuristic
fixation
mental set
functional fixedness
a type of shortcut we use to assess the likelihood of an event
availability heuristic
representative heuristic
misinformation effect
transcience
a mental shortcut based on a cognitive bias or stereotype
representative heuristic
divergent thinking
availability heuristic
belief perseverance
is a problem solving method that will always yield a correct solution if it is executed correctly yet time consuming
algorithm
heuristic
fixation
misattribution
Reece believes that global warming is a myth and as a result does not look at any information that supports the theory of humans causing global warming. She suffers from
confirmation bias
belief perseverance
mental set
convergent thinking
A district attorney finds out that a man he prosecuted (and was convicted) was found to be not guilty due to DNA evidence still insists that he was guilty and that the 20 years the person served in jail was justified. The district attorney is possibly being affected by _________________.
belief perseverance
confirmation bias
representative heuristic
functional fixedness
Richie does not have a hammer and wants to hang his cool new poster up in his dorm room. He looks around and uses his shoe to take care of the task. Richie does NOT have _________________________.
functional fixedness
mental set
fixation
availability heuristic
Which sentence most accurately describes sensory memory?
Sensory memory stores all sensory input perfectly accurately for a short period of time.
Sensory memory encodes only sensations we are attending to at the time.
Sensory memory records all incoming sensations and remembers them indefinitely.
Sensory memory receives memories from the working memory and decides which memory to encode.
