Cognition Quizizz

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

Your older sister decided to go to the most expensive college she got into, forgoing the less expensive in-state schools and schools she received large scholarships for. She justified her actions by arguing that she will be able to get a higher paying job from the expensive college that can help her pay back her debt quicker. Her need to make herself feel better is due to:

• cognitive dissonance

• overconfidence

• representative heuristic

• protoyping

• belief perserverance

This is an example of?

• foot-in-the-door

• door-in-the-face

• low balling

• bandwagon approach

• that's-not-all

A mental grouping of similar objects events ideas or people is a ...

• Prototype

• Example

• Concept

• Representative heuristic

These are step by step procedures to guarantee an outcome

• Arrhythmics

• Heuristics

• Algorithms

• Volley theroy

Which is the best term for mental activities associated with remembering, thinking, and knowing?

• Concepts

• Cognition

• Insight

• Intuition