cognitive

What term describes the process of converting sensory input into meaningful information?

• Encoding

• Retrieval

• Storage

• Forgetting

Which cognitive bias involves giving more importance to the first piece of information encountered when making decisions?

• Confirmation bias

• Anchoring bias

• Availability heuristic

• Hindsight bias

Who developed the stages of cognitive development theory, including concepts like assimilation and accommodation?

• • Erik Erikson

• • Abraham Maslow

• • Jean Piaget

• • B.F. Skinner

In the context of memory, which type of memory has a very limited capacity and a short duration of about 20-30 seconds?

• • 
    Sensory memory

  
  

• • Short-term memory

• • Long-term memory

• • Flashbulb memory

What cognitive process refers to the tendency to fill in the gaps in our perception to create a complete, meaningful whole?

• • Selective attention

• • op-down processing

• • Bottom-up processing

• • Sensory adaptation

Which cognitive disorder is characterized by a decline in memory and thinking skills severe enough to interfere with daily life?

• • Bipolar disorder

• • Schizophrenia

• • Alzheimer's disease

• • OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder)

Which part of the brain is primarily responsible for processing and storing long-term memories?

• • Amygdala

• • Hippocampus

• • Thalamus

• • Cerebellum

What term describes the tendency to remember the first and last items in a list more readily than those in the middle?

• • Primacy effect

• • Recency effect

• • Serial position effect

• • Confirmation bias

In the context of problem-solving, which problem-solving strategy involves breaking a problem down into smaller, more manageable parts?

• • Algorithm

• • Heuristic

• • ecomposition

• • Incubation

Which theory of emotion suggests that our emotional experiences are a result of the interpretation of physiological responses in specific situations?

• • Cannon-Bard theory

• • James-Lange theory

• • Schachter-Singer theory

• • Darwinian theory