Cognition Unit RE take

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During her psychology test, Kelsey could not remember the meaning of the term proactive inference..... ?

Automatic processing

Which of the following increases the chance that an individual will remember a telephone number that has been called several times within a short period?

Rehearsal

In one experiment, Wolfgang Kohler watched an ape suddenly solve a problem of reaching bananas hanging from the ceiling.....?

Insight

The news of a plane crash causes a couple to cancel their plan reservations and drive 1,000 miles in their car instead ....?

The availability heuristic

Automatic processing and effortless processing involves two types of?

Encoding

In contrast to our explicit conscious reasoning, our seemingly effortless and automatic feelings or thoughts are called?

Institutions

When her teacher mentioned arm races, Krista understood that the word "arms" was referred to as weapons not body parts.

Semantics

Morphemes are

The smallest speech units that carry meaning.

After having a stroke resulting from blockage to the medial temporal lobe.... ?

Anterograde amnesia

An unwillingness to give up our beliefs even when the evidence proves us wrong is called?

Belief perseverance

When term refers to all mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating?

Cognition

Generating the single correct answer to a intelligence test question illustrates?

Convergent thinking

Of the following, which is the best example of divergent thinking and problem solving?

Devising as many solutions as possible.

During class Tamyia was called upon to give the year she won state in track.....?

Episodic memory

A researcher ask a young child what she did yesterday, the child replies "i goed to the park" This is an example of ?

Overrgulazation of grammar rules.

When someone mentions hamburgers, Trisha immediately thinks of Mcdonals. In this instance McDonals is a?

Prototype

The tendency to immediately recall the first and last items in a list better than the middle items is known as the ___ effect?

Serial postion

Whorf's linguistic determinism hypothesis emphasizes that?

Words shape the way people think

The inability to take a new perspective on a problem is called?

a fixation


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