Psych Unit 8 Test – Flashcards

Which of the following is the best example of the use of the availability heuristic?

Language researcher Ashcroft noted that comparative human language has many shared features. Which of the following did he NOT include in his list of common important shared features.

Framing experiments have demonstrated that most humans are...

The word "predates" contains _____ phonemes and ____ morphemes.

Mr. Nydam suffers amnesia and is unable to remember playing golf on a particular course. Yet the more he plays the course, the course the more his game improves. His experience illustrates the need to distinguish between:

A listener hearing a recording of Japanese, Spanish, and north american children babbling would:

Failing to see that an article of clothing can be inflated as a life preserver is an example of:

Although Jordan could not recall the exact words of a poem he had recently heard, he clearly remembered the meaning of the poem. This best illustrates the importance of:

During her evening Spanish language exams, Janica so easily remembers the French vocabulary she studied that morning that she finds it difficult o recall the Spanish vocabulary she rehearsed that afternoon. Her difficulty best illustrates:

After Teresa was verbally threatened by someone in a passing car, she was questioned as to whether she recognized the man who was driving the car. Several hours later, Teresa mistakenly recalled that the driver was a male rather than female. Teresa experience best illustrates:

Researchers taught chimpanzee Washoe and the gorilla Koko to communicate by using:

Which of the following examples of the use of the representativeness Heuristic?

We more quickly recognize that a blue jay is a bird than that a penguin is a bird because a blue jay more closely resembles our ___________ of a bird.

The sentence "blue jeans wear false smiles." has correct __________ but incorrect ___________.

The two-word stage of language development typically begins at the age of __________ months.

According to the three box/information processing model, stimuli from the outside environment is first stored in...

The neo-Freudian who believed that memories are the window to the unconscious was...

College students are more likely to choose a condom that is said to be effective when informed that it has a 95 percent success rate than when told it has a 5 percent failure rate. This best illustrates:

One of the ways memories are physically stored in the brain is by what process?

The happier Judy is, the more readily she recalls experiences with former teachers who are warm and generous. This best illustrates that the emotional states can be:

Mr. Krohn, a carpenter, is frustrated because he misplaced his hammer and need to pound in the last nail in the bookcase he is building. He overlooks the fact that he could use the tennis trophy sitting above the workbench to pound in the nail. Which concept best explains why Mr. Krohn overlooked the trophy?

Native German speakers who pronounce the English word 'this' as 'dis' are demonstrating their difficultly with an English:

Mrs. BcBride can't consciously recall how frequently she criticized her children because it would be too anxiety-arousing to do so. Sigmunf Freud would have suggested that her poor memory illustrates:

After suffering damage to the hippocampus, a person would probably:

To find tabasco sauce in a large grocery store, you would systematically search every shelf in every store aisle. This best illustrates problems solving by means of: