Studies mental functions like thinking, intelligence, language, memory and decision making
Cognitive Psychology
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Our ability to learn, understand ideas, use knowledge to solve problems, and adapt to our environments is called:
Intelligence
100
When a person follows the orders of a person of authority
Obedience
100
Expected standards of conduct, which influence behavior
Social Norms
100
Who developed the first intelligence test?
Alfred Binet--Stanford-Binet test
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If you are choosing among various alternatives by weighing the criteria associated with each, you are engaging in:
Decision making
200
_____ describes intelligence as a unitary construct
The Stanford-Binet Test
200
_____ attitudes influence feelings and behavior on an unconscious level.
implicit
200
According to the Bystander Effect, as the number of people in a situation increases, the likelihood to receive help would ________.
decrease
200
Studied conformity
Asch
300
The word tree is an example of _______ representation
symbolic
300
_____ intelligence is involved in reasoning, processing novel events, and thinking flexibly.
Fluid
300
Cat wants to buy a new laptop. She knows that her husband will think that it is not a necessary expense. She initially proposes buying a $2,500 laptop. When her husband gets upset, she suggests that she could get by with a used laptop for $700. Cat is using the _____ approach
door-in-the-face
300
The tendency to overemphasize personality and underestimate the situation is referred to as:
fundamental attribution error
300
This individual took the mental age and divided it by the chronological age, and named this ratio the intelligence quotient.
William Stern
400
When a friend asks you to recommend a restaurant, you send her to the place where you ate last Saturday because it comes most quickly to mind. This way of thinking is an example of:
Availability Heuristic
400
Sternberg theorized that there are three types of intelligence. What are they?
Analytical, Creative, Practical
400
Sometimes after a big football game fans will riot, getting into fights and destroying property. People in such a crowd will often do things that they would never do on their own. This effect is due primarily to a process of:
deindividuation
400
In Milgram’s obedience studies, about _____ of the participants administered the maximum shock
66% (2/3rds)
400
Demonstrated how quickly normal students could be transformed into the social roles they were playing.
Zimbardo
500
According to ________ would pick car A or car B?
Car A: high mileage, slightly rusty, dependable, fuel efficient, and clean
Car B: clean, fuel efficient, dependably, slightly rusty, and high mileage
Car B
Relative comparison: Anchoring
500
The finding that IQ scores have increased dramatically over the last century is known as:
Flynn Effect
500
Initial attitudes of a group becomes more extreme over time, this is known as what?
Group polarization
500
subtle forms of prejudice that coexist with the rejection of racist beliefs