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psych unit 3
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1A severe form of anterograde amnesia associated with chronic alcoholism where thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency produces brain damage and causes confabulation.
- AKorsakoff's Syndrome
- BDementia
- CDissociative Identity Disorder
2Mental disorder linked to early childhood trauma. A symptom is inner-identity amnesia where one identity claims amnesia for events experienced by other identities.
- ADissociative identity disorder
- BKorsakoff's syndrome
- CDementia
3determining the source of a memory
- Asource monitoring
- Bsource determination
- Clocalization
4What are the disadvantages of eye witness memory?
- APerson may think that they witnessed something but actually did not.
- BThe person's stress and arousal may be too high for accurate encoding.
- CThere is potential for interference with post-event misinformation in interviews, newspapers, etc
- DBoth B and C
5memory that is retained and can last a lifetime. does not seem susceptible to forgetting.
- Apermstore
- Blong term memory
- Csecondary memory
6The Method of Loci is.....
- Aassociating items you want to remember with visual imaginary locations.
- Ba theory of memory founded by Dr. Loci
- Cremembering items by repetition
7Satisficing is
- Abeing satisfied with doing average.
- Bselecting the first choice above a certain threshold
8Believing that two events, like full moons and murders, are correlated when they are not.
- Aillusory correlations
- Bcorrelation misplacement
9the false idea that proportions should even out in the short run.
- AGambler's Fallacy
- BProportional Fate
- CProportional Effect
10Largest financial payoff
- Agambler's fallacy
- Bexpected value
- Cexpected utility
- Dframing effects
11the personal value we attach to outcomes
- Aexpected value
- Bexpected utility
- Cgambler's fallacy
12The framing effect states that the way that a problem is described impacts the solution
- ATrue
- BFalse
13psychological tension that occurs when your behaviors don't match your attitude
- Acognitive dissonance
- Bbehavioral impairment
14A problem has what three characteristics?
- Aa set of given information, a set of operations, a goal
- Ba set of given information, a list of solutions, a goal
15step by step procedure that guarantees a solution
- Aalgorithms
- Bheuristics
16a "rule of thumb" for solving problems quickly. no guarantee
- Aheuristics
- Balgorithms
17method for solving problems that involves examining every possible answer
- Abrute force search
- Bhill climbing
- Cworking backwards
18type of heuristics that involves taking steps that lead one closer to the goal state
- Ahill climbing
- Bworking backwards
- Cverbal protocol
- Danalogies
19type of heuristics that involves beginning at the goal state and working back to the starting state
- Awoking backwards
- Bhill climbing
- Canalogies
20method of problem solving that involves using knowledge from a prior problem to solve a new problem
- Aanalogies
- Bverbal protocol
- Chill climbing
21method of problem solving that involves solving a problem while talking out loud
- Averbal protocol
- Banalogies
- Chill climbing
22the tendency to see objects and their functions in certain fixed and typical ways.
- Afunctional fixedness
- Bartificial intelligence
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