Quiz 11/13/24

A pair of friends at a noisy baseball game are able to have a conversation with each other in spite of all the noise around them. Which principle best explains this scenario?

A pair of friends at a noisy baseball game are able to have a conversation with each other in spite of all the noise around them. Which principle best explains this scenario?

B. The cocktail party effect

Tonya’s psychology teacher played some backwards music to the class, and they were not able to make out any words or phrases in the selection. Then the teacher told them to listen for the words “The rat ate the cat” and played it again. Now most of the class heard the words. Which principle explains this experience?

D. Top down processing

On a warm summer day, Kimberly tells her brother to put on a suit. Kimberly’s brother knows to put on a swimsuit instead of a business suit because of

B. Priming

Dr. Jasper conducted a study in which he asked participants to view a video of a cat playing with yarn and told them to count the number of times the cat rolls the yarn. Halfway through the video, two bulldogs walk behind the cat. After the study, Dr. Jasper asks participants to indicate whether they saw the bulldogs in the video, but few participants reported seeing the bulldogs. What is the dependent variable in this study?

C. Inattentional Blindness

While teaching his students about perceptual sets, what topic would Dr. Kravstov most want his students to learn?

D. Selective attention

After moving to Alabama from Minnesota, Darnesha visited the eye doctor. While sitting in the waiting room, she overheard the receptionist making a call and mistakenly believed that the receptionist said “Sweetie, extra eyes,” rather than “Sweet tea, extra ice.” Which statement is true about this scenario?

A. Darnesha was influences by context effects

After 13 weeks, Tran finally noticed the pink clock in the classroom where she took a challenging chemistry class. What concept best explains Tran’s failure to notice the clock?

B. Selective Attention

After purchasing a new color printer, Sheila was annoyed that the pink bulldog she printed on gray paper was much brighter than the image of the pink bulldog she saw against the backdrop of her white computer screen. She called a printer expert, claiming that her printer was broken. Which of the following statements should the printer expert make to explain to Sheila why her belief is incorrect?

B. “Because of relative luminance, you may perceive the pink bulldog to be brighter against a darker background.”

Amber experienced the illusion of movement when looking at three stationary, adjacent, blinking lights. What is this effect called?

A. Phi phenomenon

Bryanna and Charles are participating in a dance competition. It is easy for spectators to see them against the dance floor because of

D. Figure-ground relationships

Narmeen is viewing the board in the classroom. She knows that the board is located far away, because the view from her left eye is only slightly different than the view from her right eye. Her ability to judge the distance of the board is due to which depth cue?

A. Retinal Disparity

Which of the following statements is best explained by research on depth perception using the visual cliff?

B. Based on research with mobile newborn animals that refuse to cross the visual cliff, it can be inferred that newborn human infants are also born with an innate sense of depth.

Even though the banana seemed to change color as the lighting in the room changed, Jane knew that the color of the banana was not actually changing. This perception is due to

B. Color constancy

Students in a marching band stand close together in tight lines in order to form the initials of their high school. Which Gestalt principle is the marching band using to form the initials?

C. Proximity

What should Mischa say in a speech to describe relative size most accurately?

If we assume two objects are similar in size, most people perceive the one that casts the larger retinal image as farther away.

To find the best route to work, Vlad identified all routes and eliminated options one-by-one. Which of the following did Vlad use?

D. Convergent thinking

When asked to think of a ball, Carlos quickly thought of images of baseballs, basketballs, and footballs. Which psychological concept best applies to this scenario?

A. Prototypes

Dr. Yamlak discovered that there was only a 3 percent chance of error in his finding that people who produce new and valuable ideas also tend to earn more money. Which of the following statements provides the most accurate interpretation of these results?

Dr. Yamlak’s result that creativity relates to income is statistically significant

Your teacher asks how many uses you can think of for a pencil. She is testing your

C. divergent thinking.

Which psychological concept is Dr. Jablonski most likely interested in measuring in this scenario?

B. Prototypes

Which of the following provides the most accurate interpretation of the medians in the scenario?

B. The middle number in a list of times for identifying action 1 as discrimination was larger than the middle number in a list of times for identifying action 2 as discrimination.

To solve calculus problems, Ridge always uses the same logical and methodical rule that guarantees a solution. Ridge uses a(n)

B. algorithm

When Thom looks for examples of his congresswoman giving to charity, while ignoring her ethics violations, he is being affected by

A. confirmation bias.

When Thom continues to believe that his congresswoman is an honest person even after she is sent to jail, Thom is experiencing

C. belief perseverance.

Jarvis has found himself purchasing meat labeled as “80 percent lean” more often than meat labeled as “20 percent fat,” even though the meat is the same. Which psychological concept best applies to this scenario?

C. Framing

After seeing a news story about a kidnapping, Odessa felt more afraid that her children would be kidnapped, even though it is a very rare occurrence. Which of the following psychological concepts best applies to this scenario

D. Availability heuristic

Bre generates, organizes, plans, and implements goal-directed behavior to complete her homework on time. What are these cognitive skills called?

C. executive functions

What psychological concept is being represented in this graph?

C. Representativeness heuristic

Janelle had been working on a chemistry problem for some time when all of a sudden the answer came to her in a single moment. What cognitive process did Janelle experience?

A. Insight

Many students underestimate the time it will take to complete an assignment because they succumb to the planning fallacy. This fallacy is rooted in which cognitive bias?

B. Overconfidence