WorksheetsEXTRA CREDIT REVIEW
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 19mins
Our mental image that best represents a category is called a...
Insight
Heuristic
Prototype
Algorithm
Retrieval
Which type of creative thinking expands the number of possible problem solutions?
Divergent Thinking
Convergent Thinking
Intrinsic Motivation
Availability Heuristic
Representative Heuristic
Which type of problem solving technique is methodical, logical, and will always lead to a correct answer if there is one?
Heuristic
Insight
Algorithm
Convergent Thinking
Divergent Thinking
Which type of problem solving strategy allows us to make an estimate on the likelihood of events based on how much that event matches a prototype?
Intuition
Insight
Availability Heuristic
Representativeness Heuristic
Algorithm
A chess-playing computer program that routinely calculates all possible outcomes of all possible game moves best illustrates problem solving by means of
the availability heuristic.
belief perseverance.
an algorithm.
the representativeness heuristic.
fixation.
The tendency to conclude that a person who likes to read poetry is more likely to be a college professor of classics than a truck driver illustrates the use of
the availability heuristic.
confirmation bias.
the framing effect.
belief perseverance.
the representativeness heuristic.
Researchers want to know how happiness is impacted by the color of your socks. Color of socks would be the...
Independent Variable
Confounding Variable
Dependent Variable
Control Variable
The participants in research who serve as the baseline for comparison.
Variable group
Control group
Experimental group
Neutral group
As miles driven in a car increases, the gallons of gas remaining decreases.
Positive correlation
No correlation
Negative correlation
Weak correlation
In testing the effects of different kinds of light on plant growth, plant growth would be the...
Hypothesis
Dependent variable
Independent variable
Control condition
When researchers meet with participants at a study's conclusion to reveal information and ensure their well-being.
Confidentiality
Informed Consent
Debriefing
Revelation
A variable outside of what is being controlled in the experiment that has an unwanted effect on the results.
Independent variable
Control variable
Confounding variable
Neutral Variable
Research must maintain utmost protection of all participants’ information and identity.
Debriefing
Informed Consent
Confidentiality
Anonymity
What does Broca's area do?
Processing language understanding.
Allows production of speech.
Makes associations between a place and name.
Makes associations between a name and a face.
Focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus and blocking out all other stimuli.
Parallel Processing
Absolute Threshold
Weber's Law
Selective attention
The system for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts.
Kinesthesis
Vestibular Sense
Place Theory
Haptic Sense
Retinal receptors that detect black, white, and gray and that work best in dim light.
Bipolar Cells
Feature Detectors
Rods
Cones
Diminishing sensitivity to a constant, unchanging stimulus.
Perceptual Adaptation
Sensory Adaptation
Selective Attention
Signal Detection Theory
The minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection 50% of them time.
Absolute Threshold
Difference Threshold
Subliminal Threshold
Weber's Law
A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another.
Selective attention
Perceptual Set
Perceptual adaptation
Habituation
Theory that the retina contains three different color receptors – red, green and blue.
Opponent Process Theory
Trichromatic Theory
Signal Detection Theory
Gate Control Theory
The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information.
Habituation
Kinesthesis
Sensation
Perception
Filling in missing parts to perceive the whole
linear perspective
closure
relative height
interposition
Parallel lines appear to converge as they get farther away
linear perspective
interposition
relative height
relative size
Closer objects block more distant ones
linear perspective
interposition
relative height
relative size
Retinal disparity refers to...
our ability to see objects as three-dimensional
the greater the difference in images, the closer they are
our eye's ability to focus on different objects
our ability to judge depth
Being able to see a bear vs. a bird is an example of flipping the gestalt principle of:
closure
similarity
proximity
figure-ground
Seeing 3 rows instead of 10 columns is an example of the gestalt principle of:
closure
similarity
proximity
figure-ground
Seeing the image on the right as a group vs the image on the left is an example as the gestalt principle of:
closure
similarity
proximity
figure-ground
Knowing that the snow is still white despite physically looking different is an example of:
color constancy
size constancy
shape constancy
