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- A. self-recognition
- B. transmitting cultural innovations
- C. generating category hierarchies
- D. linguistic determinism
Explanation: Pausing to inspect a mark visible only in a mirror suggests that dolphins recognise the reflected body as their own.
Correct answer: self-recognition- A. chunking
- B. thinking
- C. concepts
- D. symbols
Explanation: Thinking is the mental process through which people use symbols to represent, recall, and manipulate past experiences or information.
Correct answer: thinking- A. personality psychology
- B. cognitive psychology
- C. clinical psychology
- D. developmental psychology
Explanation: Cognitive psychology studies mental processes such as judgment, decision-making, and the use of heuristics.
Correct answer: cognitive psychology- A. underestimate the odds of a chance even if that event hasn't occurred recently
- B. overestimate the odds of a chance event if that even hasn't occurred recently
- C. draw general conclusions based on a few isolated cases
- D. believe that the odds of two uncertain events happening together are greater than the odds of either event happening alone
Explanation: The conjunction fallacy occurs when people judge two events occurring together as more likely than either event alone, even though a…
Correct answer: believe that the odds of two uncertain events happening together are greater than the odds of either event happening alone- A. farming effect
- B. the gambler's fallacy
- C. functional fixedness
- D. the conjunction fallacy
Explanation: The gambler’s fallacy is the mistaken belief that a random sequence must soon correct itself, so several answers of A are thought to make…
Correct answer: the gambler's fallacy- A. the representative heuristic
- B. the belief perseverance phenomenon
- C. overconfidence
- D. the framing effect
Explanation: The numerical information is equivalent: a 20% chance of rain means an 80% chance of no rain.
Correct answer: the framing effect547. An algorithm is a:
- A. method of hypothesis testing involving trial and error
- B. a mental grouping of similar objects, events or people
- C. best example of particular category
- D. methodical step-by-step procedure for solving problems
Explanation: An algorithm solves a problem through a specified sequence of steps that, when followed correctly, leads to a solution.
Correct answer: methodical step-by-step procedure for solving problems- A. humanistic
- B. cognitive
- C. behavioral
- D. biological
Explanation: Cognitive psychology examines internal mental processes, including thinking, perception, memory, language, and information processing.
Correct answer: cognitive- A. Behavioural psychologist
- B. Sport psychologist
- C. Cognitive psychologist
- D. Environmental psychologist
Explanation: A cognitive psychologist studies how children think, understand instructions, solve problems, and process information while learning…
Correct answer: Cognitive psychologist- A. The way we feel can determined by immediate responses to situations as they occur
- B. The way we feel can be determined by immediate responses to situations as they occur
- C. Feeling angry anxious or happy might impact on any of the other types of cognition, changing the way we respond
- D. A dispositionally calm person will not become anxious even when the elevator they are travelling in becomes stuck between floors
Explanation: A normally calm person can still become anxious when facing a threatening situation such as being trapped in an elevator.
Correct answer: A dispositionally calm person will not become anxious even when the elevator they are travelling in becomes stuck between floors- A. critical thinking
- B. Transudative thinking
- C. Deductive thinking
- D. Creative thinking
Explanation: Critical thinking involves evaluating evidence and reasoning by comparing, analysing, critiquing, and synthesising information.
Correct answer: critical thinking- A. neurotransmitters are transported back into their presynaptic areas
- B. vesicles in the axon are blocked from releasing neurotransmitters into the synapse
- C. neurotransmitters continue to stimulate receptors indefinitely
- D. more neurotransmitters are released into the synapseGet Study Guides
Explanation: Reuptake occurs when released neurotransmitters are taken back into the presynaptic neuron, helping end or regulate their action in the…
Correct answer: neurotransmitters are transported back into their presynaptic areas- A. fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence, and rational intelligence
- B. analytical intelligence, creative intelligence, and practical intelligence
- C. artistic intelligence, performance intelligence, and rational intelligence
- D. crystallized intelligence, fluid intelligence, and transients' intelligenceDiscover Lesson Plans
Explanation: Sternberg’s triarchic theory identifies analytical intelligence for evaluating ideas, creative intelligence for producing novel solutions…
Correct answer: analytical intelligence, creative intelligence, and practical intelligence- A. Top-down
- B. Bottom-up
- C. Vertical
- D. Horizontal
Explanation: Top-down processing uses prior knowledge, memories, expectations, and current goals to interpret sensory input.
Correct answer: Top-down- A. 1 & 2
- B. 2 & 3
- C. 1 & 3
- D. 4
Explanation: Statements 2 and 3 are correct: visual searches differ in behavioural demands and neural involvement, and the right parietal region has…
Correct answer: 2 & 3- A. People can learn different search strategies, but it does not improve performance over all or on tasks where a target is present
- B. People cannot shift from serial to parallel processing when targets are present
- C. People can learn different search strategies and training does improve performance overall
- D. People can learn different search strategies but it does not improve performance over all or on tasks where a target is absent
Explanation: Training can teach people to adopt different search strategies, although its benefits are limited and are especially weak for…
Correct answer: People can learn different search strategies but it does not improve performance over all or on tasks where a target is absent- A. Within the cortex, the general flow of local information runs vertically
- B. Within the cortex, information flows to cells in other layers above and below the activated cells
- C. Hubel and Wiesel (19613) discovered that all cortical neurons respond best the spots of light
- D. All of the above
Explanation: Hubel and Wiesel showed that cortical neurons respond selectively to features such as lines, edges, and orientations, not that all neurons…
Correct answer: Hubel and Wiesel (19613) discovered that all cortical neurons respond best the spots of light558. The ability to see very small differences in the alignment of two objects is referred to as______
- A. Perceptual set
- B. Vernier acuity
- C. Perceptual template
- D. Vertical organization
Explanation: Vernier acuity is the ability to detect very small misalignments between lines or objects.
Correct answer: Vernier acuity- A. Visual system relies on other people's Knowledge of objects to identify ambiguous stimuli
- B. Visual information about protruding objects is impossible to process
- C. Visual system relies on assumptions about the physical world to identify ambiguous stimuli
- D. Both (a) and (c)
Explanation: Because sensory cues can support more than one interpretation, the visual system applies assumptions about how objects normally exist in…
Correct answer: Visual system relies on assumptions about the physical world to identify ambiguous stimuli- A. Cells are vertically organized in columns
- B. Cells are horizontally organized in straight lines
- C. Cells are organized around the optic nerve
- D. Cells are vertically organized by volume
Explanation: Cortical neurons are arranged in vertical columns, with cells in each column sharing similar response properties and working together to…
Correct answer: Cells are vertically organized in columns