Introduction to Psychology 1/IPSY103/Cognition and language/Quiz

Review questions

Assess your understanding of this learning pathway by selecting the correct answer for eac h of the following questions:

• Cognitive psychology would be most interested in which of the following questions?
  • How do infant attachment styles inform adult romantic relationships?
    • Incorrect.
  • How do different titles for an ambiguous story influence people's recall of the story?
    • Correct.
  • How does norepinephrine influences function of the hippocampus?
    • Incorrect.
  • How does culture impact parenting behavior?
    • Incorrect.
• 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
    • Correct.
  • hindsight bias
    • Incorrect.
  • representative bias
    • Incorrect.
  • anchoring bias
    • Incorrect.
• A(an) ________ schema is also known as a cognitive script.
  • event
    • Incorrect.
  • role
    • Incorrect.
  • mental
    • Correct.
  • artificial
    • Incorrect.
• A(an) ________ is a mental construct consisting of a cluster or collection of related concepts.
  • heuristic
    • Incorrect.
  • prototype
    • Incorrect.
  • schema
    • Correct.
  • paradigm
    • Incorrect.
• A ________ is the smallest unit of language that conveys some type of meaning.
  • word
    • Incorrect.
  • letter
    • Incorrect.
  • morpheme
    • Correct.
  • phoneme
    • Incorrect.
• Carmela believes her assistant, Lian, is incompetent. She notices only what Lian does wrong while ignoring the above average quality of most of her work. This exemplifies ________ bias.
  • hindsight
    • Incorrect.
  • anchoring
    • Incorrect.
  • representativeness
    • Incorrect.
  • confirmation
    • Correct.