AP Psychology Cognition

Your mom gives your 6 chores to do, but you only remember the last two chores. This is an example of what?

• The primacy effect

• The regency effect

• The recency effect

• The primary school effect

The process of getting information into memory is called_______

• priming

• chunking

• encoding

• storing

Inability to perceive a new use for an object associated with a different purpose

• Mental set

• Functional Fixedness

• Bias

Your sensory memory is the quickest and is split into two parts, what you hear and what you see. These are called...

• Ego and Id

• visual-spatial

• echoic and iconic

• audio and myopic

Which of the following kinds of psychologists would most likely explore how we process and remember information?

• Behavioral

• Developmental

• Social

• Cognitive

The "fundamental attribution error" phenomenon can best be seen in which of the following examples

• John blames his failure to get a job on his lack of appropriate skills and ill preparedness

• Phyllis doesn't get the lead in the school play and blames her drama teacher for this failure.

• Jane blames herself for forgetting that she has a term paper due in two days

• Bill doesn't hire John bc he believes that John's lateness is a result of John's laziness & lack of respect for the job. In reality, John was late bc he got a flat tire on the way to the interview

• Karen understands that her friend is late because she was caught in rush hour traffic.

When someone mentions Ivy League colleges, Trisha immediately thinks of Harvard University. In this instance, Harvard University is a

• prototype.

• mental set.

• algorithm.

• fixation.

Processes that involve changes in an individual's thought, intelligence, and language

• Constructs

• Cognitive Processes

• Pseudoscience

• Science

All mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

• cognition

• priming

• prototype

• retrieval

The tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence is known as

• A) Confirmation Bias

• B) Hindsight Bias

• C) Anchoring Bias

• D) Availability Heuristic