2024 AP Psychology: Cognition

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Pablo vainly searches for a screwdriver while failing to recognize that a readily available coin in his pocket would turn the screw. His oversight best illustrates:

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functional fixedness.

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A defense attorney emphasizes to a jury that her client works full-time, supports his family, and enjoys leisure-time hobbies. Although none of this information is relevant to the trial, it is designed to make the defendant appear to be a typical member of the local community. The lawyer is most clearly attempting to take advantage of

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the representativeness heuristic.

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Which of the following is TRUE? People underestimate the accuracy of their judgments. People pay closest attention to information that disconfirms what they believe. It is difficult for most people to explain away their failures. People are overconfident about how they will perform on various tasks.

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People are overconfident about how they will perform on various tasks.

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Advertisers know that a thirty-three percent discount sounds like a better deal than a discount of one third. This best illustrates:

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framing.

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Maintaining one's conceptions even after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited is known as:

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belief perseverance.

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Problem solving is one type of cognitive activity in which we all engage. Which of the following cognitive tendencies is seen to be an obstacle to problem solving? availability heuristic, insight, prototype confusion, confirmation bias

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confirmation bias

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To find Tabasco sauce in a large grocery store, you could systematically search every shelf in every store aisle. This best illustrates problem solving by means of:

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an algorithm.

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A mental grouping of similar things, events or people is called a(n):

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Concept

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A strategy in which the likelihood of an event is estimated on the basis of how easily other instances of the event are available in memory is called the:

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Availability heuristic

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A dessert recipe that gives you the ingredients, their amounts and the steps to follow is an example of a(n):

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Algorithm