PSC3701
1) The process during which we interpret, analyze, remember, and use information about the social world
is known as ________.
A) encoding
B) automatic processing
C) social cognition
D) schemas
E) heuristics
Answer: C
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2) Mental frameworks for organizing and processing social information are known as ________.
A) affective states
B) anchoring frameworks
C) schemas
D) heuristics
E) cognitive loads
Answer: C
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3) High levels of stress and multiple, competing demands for our attention and abilities can reduce our
mental processing capacity. These situations can lead to ________.
A) information overload
B) schema development
C) the representativeness heuristic
D) cognitive withdrawal
E) automatic processing
Answer: A
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4) Which of the following individuals is MOST likely to experience information overload?
A) A person who is talking on a cell phone while driving a car
B) A person who is eating dinner while watching television
C) A person who is singing in the shower
D) A person who is dancing and talking at a party
E) A person who is chatting with his wife while dressing for work
Answer: A
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5) One way to manage information overload is to make use of ________.
A) mental shortcuts, such as heuristics
B) the anchoring and adjustment stratagem
C) automatic priming
, D) the complexity schema
E) the planning fallacy
Answer: A
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6) Simple rules for making complex decisions or drawing inferences are known as ________.
A) heuristics
B) automaticity
C) anchoring and adjustment
D) schemas
E) priming
Answer: A
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7) Heuristics exert a strong influence on our thinking in large measure because ________.
A) they rely on our internal personal biases and unknown prejudices
B) they are effortful processes that require an expenditure of mental energy
C) they activate critical brain structures such as the amygdala
D) they allow us to process more information than would otherwise be considered
E) they reduce the mental effort needed to make judgments and decisions
Answer: E
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8) One of the primary reasons why heuristics are employed as a strategy to process incoming information
is that they can be executed ________.
A) rapidly
B) with considerable self-reflection
C) with considerable effort
D) slowly
E) in a methodical fashion
Answer: A
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9) Juanita finds that she has been given too much information about different new cars and their relative
merits and drawbacks. She is having a difficult time making a decision about which car to buy because
she cannot process all the information she has gathered. This is an example of ________.
A) non-automatic processing
1) The process during which we interpret, analyze, remember, and use information about the social world
is known as ________.
A) encoding
B) automatic processing
C) social cognition
D) schemas
E) heuristics
Answer: C
:1
36
2) Mental frameworks for organizing and processing social information are known as ________.
A) affective states
B) anchoring frameworks
C) schemas
D) heuristics
E) cognitive loads
Answer: C
:1
37
3) High levels of stress and multiple, competing demands for our attention and abilities can reduce our
mental processing capacity. These situations can lead to ________.
A) information overload
B) schema development
C) the representativeness heuristic
D) cognitive withdrawal
E) automatic processing
Answer: A
:1
38
4) Which of the following individuals is MOST likely to experience information overload?
A) A person who is talking on a cell phone while driving a car
B) A person who is eating dinner while watching television
C) A person who is singing in the shower
D) A person who is dancing and talking at a party
E) A person who is chatting with his wife while dressing for work
Answer: A
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5) One way to manage information overload is to make use of ________.
A) mental shortcuts, such as heuristics
B) the anchoring and adjustment stratagem
C) automatic priming
, D) the complexity schema
E) the planning fallacy
Answer: A
:2
38
6) Simple rules for making complex decisions or drawing inferences are known as ________.
A) heuristics
B) automaticity
C) anchoring and adjustment
D) schemas
E) priming
Answer: A
:1
38
7) Heuristics exert a strong influence on our thinking in large measure because ________.
A) they rely on our internal personal biases and unknown prejudices
B) they are effortful processes that require an expenditure of mental energy
C) they activate critical brain structures such as the amygdala
D) they allow us to process more information than would otherwise be considered
E) they reduce the mental effort needed to make judgments and decisions
Answer: E
:2
38
8) One of the primary reasons why heuristics are employed as a strategy to process incoming information
is that they can be executed ________.
A) rapidly
B) with considerable self-reflection
C) with considerable effort
D) slowly
E) in a methodical fashion
Answer: A
:1
38
9) Juanita finds that she has been given too much information about different new cars and their relative
merits and drawbacks. She is having a difficult time making a decision about which car to buy because
she cannot process all the information she has gathered. This is an example of ________.
A) non-automatic processing
