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Cognition // AP Psychology

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  1. Phonemes are:
  2. Unlike B. F. Skinner, Noam Chomsky believes that children
  3. Cognitive psychologists are most directly concerned with the study of:
  4. Noam Chomsky's view of language proposes that
  5. Which of the following represent, respectively, superordinate and subordinate categories for the basic-level category of 'automobile?'
  6. Wolfgang Kohler considered a chimpanzee's sudden solving of a problem evidence of
  7. Which of the following is an example of metacognition?
  8. The rules for ordering words in sentences are called
  9. The solution to most arithmetic problems requires
  10. A person is asked to decide on a major in school; another is asked to decide on a career. We may say that the different answers they give to broad and specific questions are because of
  11. Thought that involves going from general principles to specific situations is called __________ reasoning. (All men are human, Tom is a man, therefore Tom is a human).
  12. The tendency to incorrectly estimate that more people die from accidents and homicides than from strokes and diabetes best illustrates the influence of ______________ since accidents and homicides are more widely reported on and thus are more prone to being fresh in our memory:
  13. __________ is the study of the meaning of words and language
  14. Sally said, 'I goed to the store,' she is demonstrating an example of
  15. Sheila is collecting information for a survey. She believes that individual on public aid have a tendency to take advantage of the money they receive from the government. As Sheila collects her data, she dismisses the information regarding hard working individuals on public aid and focuses on the information that suggests that people are taking advantage. Sheila is demonstrating the
  16. Noam Chomsky believed that language was
  17. An algorithm would not be the best strategy when trying tO
  18. Place the following stages regarding language development in the correct order.
  19. If Ellie who is 21/2 years old says, 'Cookie me now,' she is demonstrating
  20. The idea proposed by Noam Chomsky that suggests that all individuals are born with an innate ability to learn language.
  21. Questions with multiple solutions such as 'how many uses are there for a vase?' require:
  22. Which of the following is true of prototypes?
  23. Meghan is a cheerleader at your high school, she is always happy and outgoing and you assume that the rest of the cheerleaders act much the same way, this potentially false belief is an example of
  24. When trying to solve a problem, Bret uses. a logical, step-by-step formula called
  25. When the word 'walk' is changed to 'walked,' the suffix 'ed' is an example of a
  26. The overjustification effect refers to:
  27. The news headline read “Local Prostitutes Appeal to City Mayor.” Most readers immediately recognized that this was not a reference to the mayor\'s sexual desires. This best illustrates the value of:
  28. People asked to forfeit an early payment discount are less upset than when they are asked to bear a late payment surcharge. This best illustrates the importance of:
  29. The use of heuristics rather than algorithms is most likely to:
  30. A chess-playing computer program that routinely calculates all possible outcomes of all possible game moves best illustrates problem solving by means of:
  31. Dean overestimates the proportion of family chores for which he takes sole responsibility because it\'s easier for him to recall what he has done than to recall what other family members have done. This best illustrates the impact of:
  32. The practice of solving problems by using a mental shortcut is an example of
  33. Which of the following do individuals experience when their behavior is inconsistent with their attitude?
  34. The part of the brain most clearly involved in the creation of classically conditioned responses would be the _______________________________.
  35. The tendency for humans to believe vague generalities about their personality through unscientific personality inventories and horoscopes most clearly relates to: