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Question 1: What is the component of working memory that is used to solve problems?

Central Executive

Phonological Loop

Visuospatial Sketchpad

Sensory Input

Question 2: What memory system is most closely related to our conscious experience of the world?

Episodic Memory

Procedural Memory

Semantic Memory

Working Memory

Question 3: Existing memories can be used as ___________ cues to help you remember new information.

encoding

episodic

retrieval

semantic

Question 4: "In terms of memory, what is primary the problem with using eye-witness testimony as evidence in legal cases?"

It can lead to a "he said, she said" situation

Memories are affected by the way questions are asked

There are no problems with eye-witness testimony

The witness could easily lie about the event

Question 5: What is the relation between a person's confidence in a memory and the accuracy of that memory?

More confidence entails greater memory accuracy

Confidence level does not predict memory accuracy

More confidence entails lesser memory accuracy

Less confidence entails greater memory accuracy

Question 6: Some psychologists have argued that the feeling of Deja Vu in a certain situation is the result of _______________.

a failure of semantic memory

precognition

past life experience

familiarity without recollection

Question 7: What cognitive capacity is most directly related to the feeling of Deja Vu for what a person says during a conversation?

Predictive Intuition

Mental Rotation

Condintioning

Theory of Mind

Question 8: What cognitive process do politicians try to leverage by repeating the same "talking points" over and over again with the hopes that eventually you will agree with them?

Retrieval Cues

Induction

Familiarity

Frequency

Question 9: What type of memories are impaired by anterograde amnesia?

Old Procedural Memories

New Procedural Memories

New episodic memories

Old Episodic Memories

Question 10: Learning a new skill, such as tying a shoe lace, is an example of what type of memory?

Perceptual

Episodic

Procedural

Semantic

Question 11: What is the term for a person who pretends to be a participant in an experiment, but is actually working with the experimenters?"

Confabulator

Confederate

Imitator

Dupe

Question 12: "What did the Milgram experiment, in which participants were asked to inflict electrical shocks on other participants, tell us about the influence authority can have on the average person?"

Most people will conform to authority even when asked to perform immoral or unethical behaviors

Most people will conform to authority unless asked to perform immoral or unethical behaviors

Most people reject authority and refused to even participate in the experiment

Every person will conform to authority even when asked to perform immoral or unethical behaviors

Question 13: A person who claims that a negative personal event is the result of their situation or other people's behavior is demonstrating a(n) __________ locus of control.

external

internal

deferred

ulterior

Question 14: What hypothesis asserts that good things happens to good people and bad things happen to bad people?

Just World

Karmic Law

Natural Balance

New Testament

Question 15: Diffusion of responsibility predicts that the _____________ you are to another person the less likely you are to feel responsible for helping them.

more distant

more related

less related

closer

Question 16: What effect demonstrates that the more people that are present when something bad happens, the less likely it is that any one person will take responsibility for the situation?

Group Effect

Social Loafing

Bystander Effect

Group Think

Question 17: While the practice of ascribing the characteristics of a few people to a larger group of people is called generalization, what is the term for the practice of identifying the unique characteristics of a person that separates them from the larger group?

Identification

Individuation

Discrimination

Stereotyping

Question 18: What cognitive process does the behavior of role models influence?

Induction

Stereotyping

Selection Bias

Negative Priming

Question 19: In stage three of the "Robber's Cave" experiment, how were the researchers able to reduce the prejudices between groups that they had created in stages one and two?

They punished prejudicial behaviors

They were unable to reduce the prejudices

They told the children to stop hating each other

They provided a common enemy

Question 20: On average, a man will perceive women as more attractive when theirs waists are _______ tenths the size of their hips.

nine

six

eight

seven