University:
Santa Ana College
Course:
PSYC 100 | Introduction to Psychology
Academic year:

2021
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87

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3
Author:

Marissa Willix

Cognition Practice Quiz 1 1. Meghan decided to say yes to the marriage proposal from Harry, because she believed that for both of them it was love at first sight (part of her formula for knowing). This decision best illustrates: a. cognitive dissonance b. algorithms c. heuristics d. trial and error 2. Donald learned some ways to be successful in business. Now that he is a politician, he keeps trying the same methods, they do not work as well in that context. Donald is displaying: a. Functional fixedness b. Mental set c. Gestalt effect d. Repeated exposure effect 3. Many people elsewhere think of Vancouver as a beautiful sunny place, in part because the picturesque sunny days are covered in news stories much more than rainy, grey day scenes. This illustrates a natural occurrence of a. Algorithmic thinking b. State dependent memory c. Availability heuristics d. Framing effects 4. Emma notices all her friends’ successes and failures with their boyfriends and girlfriends. She pays particular attention to the cases where her predictions came true and dismisses or ignores those where she was wrong. What is the common bias illustrated? a. Fundamental attribution error b. Confirmation bias c. Black and white thinking bias d. Representativeness bias 5. Richard hates rap music. If he writes a paper in Sociology examining the negative social patterns involved in the rap industry, this will more than likely promote: a. Belief perseverance b. Accommodation c. Lateral thinking d. Cognitive confusion 6. When Bo tries to balance all the factors in his career/life planning, he sometimes feels a bit overwhelmed dealing with all the information, feelings, values and conflicts. This relates to a cognitive limitation known as: a. boundary flexibility. b. bounded willpower. c. bounded awareness. d. bounded rationality. 7. Why do we have cognitive biases? One important reason is: a. We fundamentally attribute situational causation to actions b. We often have too much time available for problems so we get bored c. Our memory capacity is too large for efficiency so we invent more data d. We need to make sense of things, so we impose interpretations 8. Sometimes people do something that seems insane and stupid later, such as a normally calm hockey player going into a rage and violently attacking an opponent. In cases like this, what was his prefrontal cortex doing? In other words, “What was he thinking?” a. Inhibiting other thoughts and actions b. Planning strategy for success c. Planning strategy for avoiding failure d. Nothing much; this is an ‘amygdala hijack’ 9. Ralph and Cindy were involved in one of our classroom Lateral Thinking puzzles. Hint: They were found deceased with broken glass and water around. Who were they? a. Psychological researchers who got married b. Fictitious people in a story c. Greek philosophers d. Not humans 10. Cognitive processing involves conscious awareness: a. When people have lower intelligence b. All of the time c. Sometimes d. Never

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