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Question 1

Sanam has just finished a long exhausting 6-mile run. She and her friend Jamal are gazing at a hill they need a climb to get back to their car Jamal asks Sanam, "Gee how steep do you think that hill is?" Based on research by Proffitt and his colleagues Sanam is likely to:

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Overestimate the hill's slant to an even greater degree than she would have before her exhausting run

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make a reasonably accurate estimate of the hill's slant, as most people do

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underestimate the hill's slant, as most people do

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Ooverestimate the hill's slant, but to a lesser degree than she would have before her exhausting run

Question 2

The fact that cultural groups with less exposure to carpentered buildings are less susceptible to the Muller-Lyer illusion suggests that:

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perceptual inferences can be shaped by experience

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not all cultures test perceptual hypotheses

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people in technologically advanced cultures are more gullible

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optical illusions can be experienced only by cultures that have been exposed to the concept of optical illusions

Question 3

In a painting, train tracks may look as if they go off into the distance because the artist draws the tracks as converging lines a pictorial cue to depth known as:

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linear perspective

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Interposition

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texture gradient

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convergence

Question 4

Which theory would predict that the American flag have a green, black, and yellow afterimage?

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opponent process theory

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subtractive color mixing

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additive color mixing

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trichromatic theory

Question 5

Attention refers to:

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All of the above

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Attend to an activity

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Respond to the signs coming from the outside

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Produce harmony between stimulus and response

Question 6

Which of the following is the base of learning of an individual according to the cognitive psychologist:

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inner condition

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Observable

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Social condition

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Emotional condition

Question 7

Inner faculties and intellectual processing are concerned with:

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Cognition

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Personality

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Measurement

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Aptitude

Question 8

The unarranged and disordered poems:

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Can easily be forgotten

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Cannot be memorized

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Can be remembered till long

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Are a source of fun for children

Question 9

The temporary inability to retrieve a word that is well-known to us is referred to as the:

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Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon

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Recency effect

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Wernicke's aphasia

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Acquired dyslexia

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Broca's aphasia

Question 10

While considerable research suggests that human's exhibit relatively poor reasoning ability what reasons have been given to be critical of this research?

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All of the above

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Rationality is not absolute

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Experiments lack ecological validity

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Satisficing responses are rational responses

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People have limited time and data available

Question 11

When two groups of participants were each shown a different set of results based on a experiment with rats, both groups reported that the results shown to them were obvious outcomes. This suggests that sometimes things appear to be more obvious than they should. Which cognitive phenomenon can explain this effect?

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Hindsight bias

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Intuition

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Availability heuristic

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Conditional reasoning

Question 12

All of the following qualities describe reasoning by intuition except for:

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Logical analysis

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Occurs automatically

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Fast analysis of information

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Strong feeling of conviction

Question 13

Which of the following is an example of people's reliance on the representativeness heuristic to make decisions or judgements?

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People are more likely to attribute a case of heartbum to spicy food than bland food

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People report that they did more than 50% of the work in domestic situations

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People tend to overestimate car accidents

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People tend to underestimate death from diabetes

Question 14

Which one of the following statements are true of the Wason selection, or four-card problem (Wason,1966)? 1. The Wason Selection Task is a good task because it produces identical results in concrete and abstract forms 2. In general, concrete versions of the task are more difficult to think about than uncluttered abstract versions. 3. Although the task is one of pure reasoning some concrete versions are easier because of how we think in certain social situations. 4. People typically pick one card correctly, but pick an inappropriate one as the second choice in the original version of the task.

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3 & 4

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1 & 2

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1 & 4

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2 & 3

Question 15

With respect to anagram problems, which of the following statements are correct?

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All of the above

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The simplest strategy is blind search, in which you just move to letters around blindly until a phrase appears

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Constraining the search space will help to speed up the problem-solving process

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All the problems can be construed in terms of search spaces

Question 16

Research studies that examine people's responses on the Watson Selection test, the military problem puzzle and speak-aloud protocols have demonstrated that reasoning about problems is strongly influenced by:

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Representation of the problem

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Logic

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Detection of the problem

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Conditional of the problem

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Heuristics

Question 17

With respect problem-solving which of the following statements is true?

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Being numerate calls for a standard application of arithmetic procedures drawn from memory

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Creative problem-solving can also be done according to formula

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Even if we experience the same problem type over and over again creative problem-solving never become routine

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None of the above

Question 18

According to Lakoff, metaphors have a significant influence in how we think and understand our social worlds, Which of the following examples below is not an example of metaphor?

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A good book is like a good meal

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Necessity is the mother of invention

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When Helen heard the news, she almost had a meltdown

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There was considerable political fallout from the scandal

Question 19

Which of these statements about scenario research is true?

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Sanford are Garrod argued that we automatically relate what is being said to background knowledge is organized in long-term memory about specific situations

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In the sentence 'Harry drove to London there may be a default representation of the fact that a car was used. subsequent mention of a car should not be a problem because its default is already in the representation resulting from the sentence and Sanford failed to show this

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In Garnham's experiment cooked was a better retrieval cue for the sentence 'Mary cooked the chips than was fried because 'cooked' actually appears in the sentence

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Scenarios result from next comprehension; they do not help comprehension take place

Question 20

Gibbs' work revealed many things, but three of the following are false in relation to his finding Which is the CORRECT answer?

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Similar findings have been obtained for metaphor comprehension as have been obtained with speech-act comprehension

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The finding of Gibbs show that the applicability of the standard comprehension model is widespread

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Comprehending sentences in stories is the same as comprehending actual interactions in dialogue

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Work on indirect speech-act comprehension reinforces the view that literal interpretation is always necessary

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