Cognitive Psychology and Perception Quiz

Test your knowledge on cognitive psychology and perception with these questions covering key concepts, theories, and processes. Challenge yourself now!

#1

Which of the following is a key concept in cognitive psychology?

Natural selection
Operant conditioning
Memory
Classical conditioning
#2

In the context of cognitive psychology, what is the term for the process of retaining and recalling information over time?

Encoding
Retrieval
Memory
Forgetting
#3

Which concept in cognitive psychology refers to the tendency to prefer information that confirms one's preexisting beliefs?

Confirmation bias
Cognitive dissonance
Selective attention
Availability heuristic
#4

What is the term for the cognitive bias where individuals tend to favor information that confirms their existing beliefs or values?

Confirmation bias
Self-serving bias
Cognitive dissonance
Illusory correlation
#5

In the context of cognitive development, who proposed the theory of cognitive development that includes stages such as sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational?

Erik Erikson
B. F. Skinner
Jean Piaget
Albert Bandura
#6

What is the primary focus of perceptual constancy?

Detecting changes in the environment
Maintaining a stable perception of objects
Learning new information
Processing emotional stimuli
#7

Which term is associated with the idea that individuals tend to recall the first and last items in a list more effectively than the middle items?

Serial position effect
Confirmation bias
Primacy effect
Recency effect
#8

What is the term for the process of actively organizing and interpreting sensory information to give it meaning and coherence?

Sensation
Perception
Attention
Cognition
#9

Which Gestalt principle suggests that elements that are close to one another tend to be perceived as a unified group?

Closure
Proximity
Similarity
Continuity
#10

What is the term for the mental shortcut that involves making judgments or decisions based on information that is easily available or accessible?

Anchoring
Availability heuristic
Confirmation bias
Representativeness heuristic
#11

In the context of visual perception, what is the term for the ability to perceive objects as maintaining their shape, despite changes in the angle or distance from which they are viewed?

Depth perception
Size constancy
Gestalt grouping
Shape constancy
#12

Which cognitive process involves organizing and interpreting sensory information to give it meaning?

Sensory adaptation
Sensory transduction
Perception
Attention
#13

Which neurotransmitter is associated with learning and memory?

Dopamine
Serotonin
Acetylcholine
GABA
#14

According to the dual-process model of cognitive processing, which system is responsible for fast, automatic, and intuitive thinking?

Reflective system
System 1
System 2
Analytic system
#15

In the context of memory, what is the term for the phenomenon where existing memories can be altered or influenced by new information?

Reconstruction
Interference
Consolidation
Repression

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