Psychology: Chapter 7 (Thinking and Intelligence) Quiz

________ are categories or groupings of linguistic information, images, ideas, or memories, such as life experiences.

Concepts

________ and ________ are powerful influences on both our thoughts and behaviors.

Emotion; memory

What is confirmation bias?

Focusing on information that confirms your existing beliefs

Which concept is a type of mental set where you cannot perceive an object being used for something other than what it was designed for?

Functional fixedness

From a psychological perspective, the term cognition means ________.

Thinking

Which term describes a communication system that uses systematic rules to organize words to transmit information from one individual to another?

Language

Knowing what a rainbow looks like because you have seen a rainbow is an example of a ________ concept.

Natural

A(an) ________ is a basic sound unit of a given language.

Phoneme

A(an) ________ is the best example, or representation, of a concept.

Prototype

A(an) ________ is a mental construct consisting of a cluster or collection of related concepts.

Schema