assessment

Review questions

Assess your understanding of this learning pathway by selecting the correct answer for eac h of the following questions:

  • Cognitive psychology would be most interested in which of the following questions?
    • How do infant attachment styles inform adult romantic relationships?
      • Incorrect.
    • How do different titles for an ambiguous story influence people’s recall of the story?
      • Correct.
    • How does norepinephrine influences function of the hippocampus?
      • Incorrect.
    • How does culture impact parenting behavior?
      • Incorrect.
  • Which concept is a type of mental set where you cannot perceive an object being used for something other than what it was designed for?
    • functional fixedness
      • Correct.
    • hindsight bias
      • Incorrect.
    • representative bias
      • Incorrect.
    • anchoring bias
      • Incorrect.
  • A(an) ________ schema is also known as a cognitive script.
    • event
      • Incorrect.
    • role
      • Incorrect.
    • mental
      • Correct.
    • artificial
      • Incorrect.
  • A(an) ________ is a mental construct consisting of a cluster or collection of related concepts.
    • heuristic
      • Incorrect.
    • prototype
      • Incorrect.
    • schema
      • Correct.
    • paradigm
      • Incorrect.
  • A ________ is the smallest unit of language that conveys some type of meaning.
    • word
      • Incorrect.
    • letter
      • Incorrect.
    • morpheme
      • Correct.
    • phoneme
      • Incorrect.
  • Carmela believes her assistant, Lian, is incompetent. She notices only what Lian does wrong while ignoring the above average quality of most of her work. This exemplifies ________ bias.
    • hindsight
      • Incorrect.
    • anchoring
      • Incorrect.
    • representativeness
      • Incorrect.
    • confirmation
      • Correct.