Concepts in Cognitive Psychology

encompasses the processes associated with perception, knowledge, problem solving, judgment, language, and memory.

• Emotion
• Intuition
• Instinct
• Cognition

Knowing what a rainbow looks like because you have seen a rainbow is an example of a(n)____ concept.

• modular
• artificial
• natural
• prototypical

________ are categories or groupings of linguistic information, images, ideas, or memories, such as life experiences.

• Concepts
• Schemas
• Theories
• Hypotheses

________ concepts are ones that we know by a specific set of characteristics.

• Definitional
• Abstract
• General
• Theoretical
• artificial

A(an) ________ is a basic sound unit of a given language

• morpheme
• phoneme
• grapheme
• syllable

Which term refers to the process by which we derive meaning from morphemes and words?

• semantics
• morphology
• phonetics
• syntax

Carmela believes her assistant, Lian, is incompetent. She notices only what Lian does wrong while ignoring the above average quality of most of her work. This exemplifies ________ bias.

• self-serving bias
• confirmation bias
• availability heuristic
• anchoring bias

Who developed the triarchic theory of intelligence?

• Howard Gardner
• Daniel Goleman
• Jean Piaget
• Robert Sternberg

. Which individual was asked by the French government to create an assessment tool – an intelligence test, of sorts – that would be used to identify schoolchildren who would be more likely to have difficulty in school?

• Jean Piaget
• Lev Vygotsky
• Maria Montessori
• Alfred Binet

Which option is NOT one of the Wechsler tests of intelligence?

• Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI)

• Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)

• Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)

   

• Wechsler Adolescent Intelligence Measure (WAIM)