Cognitive Psychology

An implicit by which an organism becomes aware of and manipulates past experiences through the use of symbols is our class definition of:

A. chunking
B. thinking
C. concepts
D. symbols

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Professor Pegler’s research efforts focus on how the use of heuristics influences the way people assess financial risks. Which specialty area does his research best represent?

A. personality psychology
B. cognitive psychology
C. clinical psychology
D. developmental psychology

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The conjunction fallacy is a tendency to:

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

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If you were to compare adult speech with the speech of infants under 6 months of age you should expect to find that:

A. adults are capable of producing more phonemes than infants are
B. adults and infants both use the same number of phenomes
C. infants produce more phonemes than adults do
D. adults and infants both use the same number of morphemes

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Raheem is taking the SAT and he has just answered “A” to seven consecutives. He is convinced that if the answers are random this shouldn’t happen, so he changes one of his answers to “B” and one to “D” Raheeem is showing evidence of:

A. farming effect
B. the gambler’s fallacy
C. functional fixedness
D. the conjunction fallacy

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On Monday, the meteorologist forecast a 20 percent chance of rain, so Sharmila took her umbrella to work. On Friday, he reported an 80 percent chance than it would not rain, so Sharmila left her umbrella at home. Sharmila’s behavior illustrates the impact of:

A. the representative heuristic
B. the belief perseverance phenomenon
C. overconfidence
D. the framing effect

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Cognitive Psychology

An implicit by which an organism becomes aware of and manipulates past experiences through the use of symbols is our class definition of:

Professor Pegler’s research efforts focus on how the use of heuristics influences the way people assess financial risks. Which specialty area does his research best represent?

The conjunction fallacy is a tendency to:

If you were to compare adult speech with the speech of infants under 6 months of age you should expect to find that:

Raheem is taking the SAT and he has just answered “A” to seven consecutives. He is convinced that if the answers are random this shouldn’t happen, so he changes one of his answers to “B” and one to “D” Raheeem is showing evidence of:

On Monday, the meteorologist forecast a 20 percent chance of rain, so Sharmila took her umbrella to work. On Friday, he reported an 80 percent chance than it would not rain, so Sharmila left her umbrella at home. Sharmila’s behavior illustrates the impact of:

In general, toddlers can:

An algorithm is a:

Psychiatrists differ from psychologists in that psychiatrist:

Phonemes are the smallest units ofin a spoken language; morphemes are the smallest units of_in language.