Cognitive Psychology Quiz

What is the term for the brains natural mode of information processing for many functions?

• Effortful processing

• Mnemonics

• Parallel processing

• Automatic processing

Which type of memory involves the retention of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare?

• Echoic memory

• Semantic memory

• Iconic memory

• Implicit memory

What is the term for the inability to form new memories?

• Retrograde amnesia

• Retroactive interference

• Proactive interference

• Anterograde amnesia

Who proposed the 3-stage model of memory framing process, including sensory, short, and long term memory?

• Eric Kandel

• George Miller

• Herman Ebbinghaus

• Atkinson & Shiffron

What is the term for the stage of speech development where an infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language?

• Babbling stage

• One word stage

• Telegraphic speech

• Two word stage

Who observed synaptic changes during learning and studied sea slugs to understand the neural basis of memory?

• Elizabeth Loftus

• Sternberg

• Wolfgang Kohler

• Eric Kandel

What is the term for the tendency to recall best the last recent and first prime items in a list?

• Fixation

• Confirmation bias

• Serial position effect

• Mental set

Who proposed the 5 components of creativity, including expertise, imaginative thinking skills, venturesome personality, intrinsic motivation, and creative environment?

• Sternberg

• Whorf

• Chomsky

• Pinker

What is the term for the estimating likelihood of events based on memory availability?

• Framing

• Phoneme

• Morpheme

• Availability heuristic

Who proposed that language controls the way we think and interpret the world around us?

• George Miller

• Linguistic determinism

• Atkinson & Shiffron

• Herman Ebbinghaus