Question 1: What is the component of working memory that is used to solve problems?
Central Executive
Phonological Loop
Visuospatial Sketchpad
Sensory Input
Question 2: What memory system is most closely related to our conscious experience of the world?
Episodic Memory
Procedural Memory
Semantic Memory
Working Memory
Question 3: Existing memories can be used as ___________ cues to help you remember new information.
encoding
episodic
retrieval
semantic
Question 4: "In terms of memory, what is primary the problem with using eye-witness testimony as evidence in legal cases?"
It can lead to a "he said, she said" situation
Memories are affected by the way questions are asked
There are no problems with eye-witness testimony
The witness could easily lie about the event
Question 5: What is the relation between a person's confidence in a memory and the accuracy of that memory?
More confidence entails greater memory accuracy
Confidence level does not predict memory accuracy
More confidence entails lesser memory accuracy
Less confidence entails greater memory accuracy
Question 6: Some psychologists have argued that the feeling of Deja Vu in a certain situation is the result of _______________.
a failure of semantic memory
precognition
past life experience
familiarity without recollection
Question 7: What cognitive capacity is most directly related to the feeling of Deja Vu for what a person says during a conversation?
Predictive Intuition
Mental Rotation
Condintioning
Theory of Mind
Question 8: What cognitive process do politicians try to leverage by repeating the same "talking points" over and over again with the hopes that eventually you will agree with them?
Retrieval Cues
Induction
Familiarity
Frequency
Question 9: What type of memories are impaired by anterograde amnesia?
Old Procedural Memories
New Procedural Memories
New episodic memories
Old Episodic Memories
Question 10: Learning a new skill, such as tying a shoe lace, is an example of what type of memory?
Perceptual
Episodic
Procedural
Semantic
Question 11: What is the term for a person who pretends to be a participant in an experiment, but is actually working with the experimenters?"
Confabulator
Confederate
Imitator
Dupe
Question 12: "What did the Milgram experiment, in which participants were asked to inflict electrical shocks on other participants, tell us about the influence authority can have on the average person?"
Most people will conform to authority even when asked to perform immoral or unethical behaviors
Most people will conform to authority unless asked to perform immoral or unethical behaviors
Most people reject authority and refused to even participate in the experiment
Every person will conform to authority even when asked to perform immoral or unethical behaviors
Question 13: A person who claims that a negative personal event is the result of their situation or other people's behavior is demonstrating a(n) __________ locus of control.
external
internal
deferred
ulterior
Question 14: What hypothesis asserts that good things happens to good people and bad things happen to bad people?
Just World
Karmic Law
Natural Balance
New Testament
Question 15: Diffusion of responsibility predicts that the _____________ you are to another person the less likely you are to feel responsible for helping them.
more distant
more related
less related
closer
Question 16: What effect demonstrates that the more people that are present when something bad happens, the less likely it is that any one person will take responsibility for the situation?
Group Effect
Social Loafing
Bystander Effect
Group Think
Question 17: While the practice of ascribing the characteristics of a few people to a larger group of people is called generalization, what is the term for the practice of identifying the unique characteristics of a person that separates them from the larger group?
Identification
Individuation
Discrimination
Stereotyping
Question 18: What cognitive process does the behavior of role models influence?
Induction
Stereotyping
Selection Bias
Negative Priming
Question 19: In stage three of the "Robber's Cave" experiment, how were the researchers able to reduce the prejudices between groups that they had created in stages one and two?
They punished prejudicial behaviors
They were unable to reduce the prejudices
They told the children to stop hating each other
They provided a common enemy
Question 20: On average, a man will perceive women as more attractive when theirs waists are _______ tenths the size of their hips.
nine
six
eight
seven