Test Your Knowledge of Cognitive Processes
A set of engaging multiple‑choice items that probe key concepts in cognitive psychology, from heuristics to memory consolidation.
Quiz Questions
Answer all questions below and test your knowledge.
- 1
Which term describes the mental shortcut that leads to systematic errors in judgment?
- 2
The phenomenon where individuals recall the first and last items in a list better than the middle items is called?
- 3
In classic experiments, participants who see a word like "yellow" are slower to name the color red. This interference is known as?
- 4
The tendency to overestimate how much others share our opinions is called?
- 5
When a memory is reconstructed with details that were never actually experienced, it is an example of?
- 6
The brain’s ability to focus on a single conversation in a noisy room is known as?
- 7
What term describes the mental representation of a category based on typical features?
- 8
In decision making, the tendency to stick with an initial choice despite new evidence is termed?
- 9
The process by which short‑term memories become stable for long‑term storage is called?
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