TEST Cognition

Which of the following concepts best explains why Peyton and Breonna had very different observations at the picnic?

• Perceptual set

• Kinesthesis

• Monochromatism

• Difference threshold

Dr. Meerdink wants to know if creativity varies throughout the day. In a morning class, she asks her college students to list as many uses as possible for a stick. On the same day 12 hours later, she asks students in an evening class to list as many uses as possible for a stick. Which of the following factors is the dependent variable?

• Morning

• Evening

• Creativity

• College students

Throughout January and the beginning of February, the first two months of a calendar year, Allison writes the previous year as the date on all her assignments instead of the current year. Allison’s tendency to write the wrong year on her assignments is most likely due to which of the following?

• Retroactive interference

• Anterograde amnesia

• Proactive interference

• Retrograde amnesia

A devoted young father reads a news report that claims many people believe men are not as intelligent in how to properly care for their children. The young father has plans to care for his child that day. Which of the following can be predicted about his performance as a caretaker based on the concept of stereotype threat?

• The father will ignore the news reports because they do not apply to him.

• The father will experience increased resentment toward childcare.

• The father will experience increased anxiety and make mistakes as a caretaker.

• The father will develop an insecure attachment with his child.

A prototype is best defined as

• an example of bottom-up processing

• the equivalent of feature abstraction

• the hypothetical "most typical" instance of a category

• an essential element of category membership

Barclay is excited about all they will learn in AP Psychology when school starts next week. According to the multi-store model of memory, the first stage in memory processing involves which of the following?

• Retrieval

• Storage

• Rehearsal

• Encoding

In the morning, Jorge watched a cartoon about a sarcastic rabbit. Later, in his psychology class, he viewed the image above and readily identified it as a rabbit instead of a duck. Which of the following best explains this phenomenon?

• Priming

• Habituation

• Conditioned response

• Stimulus generalization

A researcher shows the same video of an automobile accident to two different groups of participants. Participants in group one are asked: “Did you see a broken headlight?” Participants in group two are asked: “Did you see the broken headlight?” The researcher finds that participants in group two are much more likely to recall having seen a broken headlight, even though there actually was no broken headlight in the video. The researcher is investigating the effects of which of the following on recall?

• Heuristics

• Framing

• Proactive interference

• The primacy effect

The brain scans of people with amnesia are most likely to show damage to the

• hippocampus

• hypothalamus

• medulla

• cerebellum

Cesar is participating in a memory competition. He must memorize a long, novel string of numbers in 60 seconds, then try to recall them immediately without missing or misplacing any numbers. Which strategy should Cesar use?

• Fixed mindset

• Chunking

• Spacing

• Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon