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WorksheetsNo.2 Retake Review AP Psychology: Cognition
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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Class
Date
1.
Ana is instructed by her doctor to wear a patch over one eye. While wearing the patch, Ana will lose her ability to use which of the following depth perception cues?
a)
Relative size
b)
Interposition
c)
Linear perspective
d)
Retinal disparity
2.
Cognitive theorists emphasize the
a)
powerful unconscious impulses that motivate behavior
b)
formation and modification of schemas
c)
impact of rewards and punishments
d)
individual’s desire to become self-actualized
3.
Convergence is a binocular depth cue that is based on which of the following?
a)
Change in the size of the pupil
b)
Muscular tension that leads to the lens changing shape
c)
Muscular tension that occurs when the eyes turn inward
d)
Fact that there are more rods on the periphery of the retina
4.
The Gestalt principle that refers to an individual’s tendency to perceive an incomplete figure as whole is called
a)
figure-ground
b)
closure
c)
proximity
d)
shape constancy
5.
Initially, intelligence quotients were calculated on the basis of a person’s mental and chronological ages. Using that approach, a person with a mental age of 12 and an intelligence score of 120 would have a chronological age of
a)
10
b)
12
c)
14
d)
16
6.
When confronted with the sequence “__N __” at the end of a word in a crossword puzzle, Tony inserts the letters “I” and “G”. This example illustrates the use of
a)
elaborative rehearsal
b)
a heuristic
c)
a prototype
d)
a syllogism
7.
Denny does not have wrapping paper to use to wrap a birthday present, and so he decides to use colorful newspaper comics instead. Denny’s solution demonstrates that he has overcome
a)
functional fixedness
b)
the fundamental attribution error
c)
cognitive dissonance
d)
egocentrism
8.
Hillary glances at a graph and then turns her head away. When she tries to remember what she saw, which of the following types of memory does Hillary use?
a)
Iconic
b)
Declarative
c)
Implicit
d)
Echoic
9.
Memories of well-learned skills, such as riding a bicycle, are classified as
a)
iconic
b)
semantic
c)
echoic
d)
procedural
10.
Elena is presented with a list of 20 numbers. When asked to recall this list, she remembers more numbers from the beginning than from the end of the list. This phenomenon demonstrates which of the following effects?
a)
Mnemonic
b)
Primacy
c)
Recency
d)
Clustering
11.
Mrs. Glass's interest in a "name that song" game demonstrates her:
a)
Fluid intelligence
b)
Crystallized intelligence
c)
Emotional intelligence
d)
Practical intelligence
12.
A person assembling a tool one week after reading the instructions can remember the first and last steps of the procedure but not the middle ones. This best illustrates which of the following?
a)
Encoding failure
b)
Retrograde amnesia
c)
Repression
d)
The serial position effect
13.
When Judy is asked how many windows are in her home, she figures out the answer by mentally walking through her house and taking a count. This retrieval technique relies most heavily on
a)
echoic memory
b)
iconic memory
c)
imagery
d)
rehearsal
14.
Although she has not sustained any injuries, Riley cannot remember anything before the age of three. She is most likely experiencing
a)
retrograde amnesia
b)
anterograde amnesia
c)
infantile amnesia
d)
proactive interference
15.
Which of the following is an example of metacognition?
a)
Recognizing the faces of people after meeting them once
b)
Solving a complex problem in a slow, deliberate way
c)
Understanding the role of various parts of the brain in memory
d)
Knowing the effectiveness of different strategies for learning statistical formulas
16.
When Lois looks at her wedding pictures, she has vivid memories of the early years of her marriage. The pictures serve as
a)
encoding devices
b)
iconic memories
c)
implicit memories
d)
retrieval cues
17.
A disadvantage of using Alfred Binet's concept of mental age in assessing intelligence is that:
a)
it is primarily applicable to children and does not effectively measure intelligence in adults
b)
It is based on a negatively skewed distribution.
c)
Its norms are no longer appropriate.
d)
It produces unreliable test results among rural children.
18.
A test author most interested in ensuring that individuals receive similar scores on a personality test every time they take it is attempting to increase which of the following?
a)
Validity
b)
Reliability
c)
Experimenter-expectancy effects
d)
Standardization
19.
Most intelligence tests are normed such that the mean score is 100 and the standard deviation is 15. Therefore, the discovery of the Flynn effect leads one to conclude that
a)
IQ tests should be renormed at periodic intervals
b)
the tests may not have been valid when they were initially constructed
c)
the relatively high reliability coefficients for IQ tests may not be accurate
d)
IQ scores tend not to change over the course of a person’s life
20.
The Gestalt principle that refers to an individual’s tendency to perceive an incomplete figure as a whole is called
a)
figure-ground
b)
Closer
c)
proximity
d)
shape constancy
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