Let's Get Emotional
This role of emotions helps us act quickly and influences our thoughts and memories.
What are Intrapersonal Functions?
Think about what you categorize as pizza toppings. Now, think of pineapple. Does it fall within or outside your category for 'pizza toppings'? This is an example of _______.
What are concepts?
Dakota has the choice of buying a pair of sneakers for $40 with free shipping, or buying a pair of sneakers for $20 with $20 shipping.
They go for the sneakers with free shipping due to what sales tactic/decision-making framework?
What is Framing?
This effect shows that sometimes when we have ambiguous sound or speech, that we use our vision to label what the sound actually is.
What is the McGurk Effect?
Which card(s) need to be flipped over on the board (3, 8, green, blue) to test the following rule: If one of these cards has an even number on one side then its other side is green.
What are 8 and blue?
Jessica is nervous for her presentation she has to give at work in 5 minutes. She decides to smile, as she believes this will help trick her brain into turning her nervousness into being excited. This is an example of which theory of emotion?
What is Facial Feedback Theory?
You are using this type of thinking when taking a multiple choice exam.
What is Convergent thinking?
Billy has a severe migraine, and thinks he is dying; so, he looks up his symptoms on the internet. He overpasses the more plausible explanations such as chronic migraines or congestion issues, and looks at the more serious diagnoses such as a brain tumor. He believes now that he must have a brain tumor.
What is Confirmation Bias?
Cherry recently got in a car accident, and has had speech problems ever since. Upon looking at a photo of horses crossing a river, Cherry describes the photo "Ho Horse Horses r riv er cross splash r rocks and trees n in in nay ture." This is an example of what type of aphasia?
What is Broca's Aphasia?
Remembering the day of your graduation : episodic memory as remembering what tip of the tongue phenomena : _______________.
What is semantic memory?
Trevor gags and simultaneously thinks cleaning dishes are gross, and labels his current emotion as disgust.
What is Schacter-Singer Theory?
Diego immediately stands up and walks to the front of the restaurant to pay for his order after eating. However, he ends up finding out this restaurant brings the bill to his table. Diego was just following his _______ of what he does at a restaurant.
What is a script (or schema)?
A 4 year old child has only seen their mother pregnant (so constantly a bigger, rounded belly) as the mother has had 1 other child after the 4 year old, and another due in 1 month. The 4 year old sees a women at the store with a round belly, and asks her if she is having a baby boy or girl. It appears the child thinks everyone with round bellies are pregnant due to this heuristic.
What is Representativeness Heuristic?
All of the following are advantages of being Multilingual EXCEPT?
a) Perform better on tests of nonverbal intelligence
b) Enhancements in language-processing speed
c) Especially skilled in selective attention tasks
What is b) Enhancements in language-processing speed?
_________ intelligence increases throughout life, whereas _________ intelligence starts to decrease after early adulthood/
What is Crystallized; Fluid intelligence?
Amy wants to measure fear arousal in response to people watching scary movies. She does this by hooking up electrodes to measure their sweat conductance while they watch the movie.
What is Galvanic Skin Response (GSR)?
Find a word that connects the following words:
Widow, Bite, Monkey
What is this task called?
What is the Remote Associations Test?
Jerry cheated on Dalton. Once Hailey found out, she told Dalton she "knew all along that Jerry was going to be a cheater". This is an example of _______.
What is Hindsight Bias?
In class, we watched a video that discussed how our brain fills in the gaps in sound when we can't hear things, so we end up still perceiving a full sentence or word. What is happening during these gaps of sound/what is this phenomenon called?
What is Masking?
Solve the following remote word associations test.
Fox/Man/Peep
What is 'Hole'?
You're watching the movie "Jaws", and hear the "dun dun dun" start playing. Your heart starts beating faster and you think you must be scared. So, you feel frightened.
What is Cognitive Appraisal Theory?
Dara forgot to warm her car up in the morning, and has a thin layer of frost all over her window. She doesn't have the time to wait for the whole thing to heat up, and forgot her icescraper. So, she uses her student ID to scrape off the ice. Dara doesn't have an issue with ____________.
What is Functional Fixedness?
If it's raining, then the ground is wet.
It's raining.
Therefore, the ground is wet.
Affirm/Deny the Antecedent/Consequent?
What is affirming the antecedent?
95% of people label this shape on the board as a Bouba due to this effect.
What is the Bouba-Kiki Effect?
There are two ducks in front of a duck, two ducks behind a duck and a duck in the middle. How many ducks are there?
What are 3 ducks?