Cognition Review

You are deciding between a new security system or a carbon monoxide detector. Due to the recent burglaries in your neighborhood, you end up purchasing a new security system. You did this because of:

• availability heuristic

• belief perseverance

• cognitive mapping

• latent learning

• mental set

You went to visit Lynchburg College and it just didn't feel like your ideal vision of what college should look/feel like. This is due to your _ of what an ideal college looks like.

• prototype

• overconfidence

• framing

• cognitive dissonance

• cognitive mapping

You always go for the "girl next door" type of person when choosing a partner, someone who is sweet, effortlessly beautiful, relatively low maintenance. This strategy is your:

• mental set

• availability heuristic

• dating algorithm

• overconfidence

• social learning

While doing your groceries, you see two different beef products. Both cost and weigh exactly the same. One is labeled “80% lean” and the other “20% fat.” Comparing the two, you feel that 20% fat sounds like an unhealthy option, so you choose the 80% lean option. This is due to:

• framing

• observational learning

• learned helplessness

• latent learning

• belief perseverance

The Unit 4 test is next class but you feel like this unit has been pretty easy and decide not to study until the night before. This is due to:

• overconfidence

• heuristic

• framing

• representative heuristic

• insight learning

Which of the following represents the concept of "furniture"?

• Only chairs and tables.

• Objects specifically for seating.

• Items used in a home for sitting, sleeping, or storing things.

• Devices with mechanical parts.

Which of these is a prototype for "fruit"?

• apple

• mango

• jackfruit

• carrot

Trying random keys until finding the one that unlocks the door is an example of:

• algorithm

• heuristic

• trial and error

• intuition

Trying random keys until finding the one that unlocks the door is an example of:

• algorithm

• heuristic

• trial and error

• intuition

Solving a puzzle by testing random pieces in different places until it fits is using:

• algorithm

• prototype

• trial and error

• insight