#1
Who is considered the father of cognitive psychology?
B.F. Skinner
Ivan Pavlov
Jean Piaget
Ulric Neisser
#2
What is the primary function of working memory?
To store long-term memories
To process sensory information
To maintain and manipulate information temporarily
To retrieve stored memories
#3
Who developed the concept of the 'cognitive revolution' in psychology?
William James
Sigmund Freud
Noam Chomsky
George Miller
#4
Who introduced the concept of 'mental set' in problem-solving?
Wolfgang Köhler
Kurt Lewin
Abraham Maslow
Edward Thorndike
#5
Which cognitive bias refers to the tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information encountered?
Anchoring bias
Recency effect
Availability heuristic
Confirmation bias
#6
Which term refers to the mental process of organizing information into meaningful units?
Encoding
Chunking
Retrieval
Decoding
#7
Who developed the concept of 'levels of processing'?
George Miller
Noam Chomsky
Richard Atkinson
Craik and Lockhart
#8
Which term describes the tendency to recall the first items in a list more easily than those in the middle or end?
Serial position effect
Primacy effect
Recency effect
Echoic memory
#9
Who proposed the concept of 'schemas' in cognitive psychology?
Albert Bandura
Jerome Bruner
Piaget
Freud
#10
What is the term for the tendency to attribute one's own thoughts and feelings to others?
Projection
Empathy
Social comparison
Theory of mind
#11
Who proposed the concept of 'cognitive dissonance'?
Leon Festinger
Albert Bandura
Jerome Bruner
Stanley Milgram
#12
Which theory suggests that intelligence is composed of analytical, practical, and creative abilities?
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Spearman's Two-Factor Theory
Wechsler's Theory of Intelligence
Sternberg's Triarchic Theory
#13
What does the term 'confirmation bias' refer to in cognitive psychology?
Tendency to favor information that confirms preconceptions
Inability to recall information that contradicts beliefs
Inclination to seek out new information
Ability to process conflicting information efficiently
#14
What is the term for the ability to understand and regulate one's own emotions and the emotions of others?
Social intelligence
Emotional intelligence
Cognitive flexibility
Fluid intelligence
#15
Which phenomenon refers to a sudden realization or solution to a problem that comes in a flash of insight?
Algorithm
Heuristic
Functional fixedness
Aha! moment
#16
According to Sternberg's Triarchic Theory, what are the three components of intelligence?
Perceptual, emotional, and social
Analytical, practical, and creative
Verbal, mathematical, and spatial
Memory, attention, and problem-solving
#17
Which term refers to the process of reorganizing elements of a problem to find a solution?
Divergent thinking
Convergent thinking
Functional fixedness
Problem restructuring