Cognitive Processes Quiz

All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

The cognitive abilities and processes that allow humans to plan or inhibit their actions.

A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.

<p>A mental image or best example of a category.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Concepts or mental frameworks that organize and interpret information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Image or picture of the way space is organized as determined by an individual's perception, impression, and knowledge of that space.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A step-by-step procedure for solving a problem.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A rule-of-thumb problem-solving strategy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness), we presume such events are common.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead us to ignore other relevant information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The belief that the chances of something happening with a fixed probability become higher or lower as the process is repeated.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The bias in which people's subjective confidence in their decision making is greater than their objective accuracy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A framing effect in which people make decisions about a current situation based on what they have previously invested in the situation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Expands the number of possible problem solutions (creative thinking that diverges in different directions).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Expertise, imaginative thinking skills, venturesome personality, intrinsic motivation, and creative environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A base of knowledge.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Seeing things in new ways.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The ability to focus on only one stimulus from among all sensory input.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Surrounding self with other creative people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Driven by interest and passion rather than money or deadlines.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ability to concentrate on one voice amongst a crowd.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency to read the words instead of saying the color of ink.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When we encode its sound.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Thinking about the physical appearance of words to be learnt.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Thinking about the meaning of words to be learnt.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The decision-making bias that results from the way a decision, question, or problem is worded.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Turning sensory information into a form the brain can use.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>holding onto information for some period of time (making a memory).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Getting information out storage.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A brief recording of sensory information before it is passed to short-term memory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Visual sensory memory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A limited-capacity store that can maintain unrehearsed information for about 20 to 30 seconds. Can retain about 7 objects.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The part of working memory that holds and processes verbal and auditory information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The part of working memory that directs attention and processing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Deals with/processes visual information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The relatively permanent storage of information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Knowledge HOW TO do something. (Procedural)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Writing that tells how to do something.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and &quot;declare&quot;.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Knowing something is TRUE.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Remembering to do things in the future.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The memory for events and facts related to one's personal life story.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Seeks new experiences, tolerates the uncertain.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Can yield short term results, but things are learned quickly are also forgetting quickly.</p> Signup and view all the answers