A. overgeneralization
B. over-discrimination
C. under-generalization
D. telegraphic speech
Psychology Mcqs
The ability of young children to use two-word sentences is referred to as __________________?
A. babbling
B. morpheme induction
C. telegraphic speech
D. aphasia
Research suggests that humans can most easily master the grammar of a second language during __________________?
A. childhood
B. adolescence
C. early adulthood
D. late adulthood
Which of the following terms refers to a person’s accumulated knowledge and verbal skills?
A. fluid intelligence
B. concrete operational intelligence
C. crystallized intelligence
D. formal operational intelligence
The fact that we can think without language is best illustrated in research on ___________________?
A. mental imagery
B. functional fixedness
C. the framing effect
D. algorithms
The most common way of studying human cognitive processing is to evaluate ____________________?
A. semantic shifts
B. EEG readings
C. reaction time
D. rehearsal time
Which psychological specialty is most directly concerned with the systematic study of problem solving, decision making and concept formation?
A. developmental psychology
B. social psychology
C. clinical psychology
D. cognitive psychology
In general, people attach concepts and attributes to items and events. This knowledge is used to categorize and understand new stimuli and is best known as a person’s ___________________?
A. algorithm
B. heuristic
C. schema
D. mental set
When we use the word “tree” to refer to a category of plants, we are using this word as a/an __________________?
A. prototype
B. heuristic
C. concept
D. algorithm
Gardner has proposed a theory of multiple intelligences. Which of the following is not one of the dimensions in his theory?
A. musical
B. verbal
C. mathematical
D. performance