Multiple Choice Quizzes

Take the quiz test your understanding of the key concepts covered in the chapter. Try testing yourself before you read the chapter to see where your strengths and weaknesses are, then test yourself again once you’ve read the chapter to see how well you’ve understood. 

1. The choice between automatic and controlled processes is:

  1. Typically automatic
  2. Typically controlled
  3. Always automatic
  4. Always controlled

Answer:

a. Typically automatic

2. Automatic processes ______________ motivations.

  1. Influence
  2. Are influenced by
  3. A and B
  4. Neither A nor B

Answer:

c. A and B

3. Proceduralized judgments are:

  1. Developed without practice
  2. Preemptive over non-proceduralized judgments
  3. Slower than non-proceduralized judgments
  4. Deliberate and thoughtful

Answer:

b. Preemptive over non-proceduralized judgments

4. Judgments about others’ ____________ are often automatic.

  1. Traits
  2. Behavior
  3. A and B
  4. Neither A nor B

Answer:

a. Traits

5. Automatic and controlled processes can be triggered by:

  1. Subliminal primes
  2. Supraliminal primes
  3. A and B
  4. Neither A nor B

Answer:

c. A and B

6. An ironic rebound effect:

  1. Occurs during the period of time when one is asked to suppress thoughts
  2. Occurs when one is no longer attempting to suppress thoughts
  3. Can be prevented by substituting different thoughts for the unwanted thoughts
  4. B and C

Answer:

b. Occurs when one is no longer attempting to suppress thoughts

7. Goal-directed automaticity is:

  1. Adaptive
  2. Maladaptive
  3. A and B
  4. Neither A nor B

Answer:

c. A and B

8. The conscious will is an example of:

  1. Automatic process
  2. Controlled process
  3. Intention
  4. Behavior

Answer:

b. Controlled process

9. First-order consciousness necessarily involves:

  1. Being mindful
  2. Having self-esteem
  3. Thinking about one’s own thoughts
  4. Causing one’s own behavior

Answer:

a. Being mindful

10. Mind-wandering is an example of:

  1. Stimulus-dependent thought
  2. Stimulus-independent thought
  3. Unconscious thought
  4. Default network deactivation

Answer:

b. Stimulus-independent thought

11. Trying to predict your roommate is an example of:

  1. Operant thought
  2. Respondent thought
  3. A and B
  4. Neither A nor B

Answer:

a. Operant thought

12. ____________ is a thought-sampling technique frequently used outside the laboratory:

  1. Experience sampling
  2. Think-aloud paradigm
  3. Videotaping
  4. A and C

Answer:

a. Experience sampling

13. It is possible to study people’s thoughts in a useful way when:

  1. People report on their thoughts while they are happening
  2. People report on the content of their thoughts
  3. People report on their thought processes
  4. A and B

Answer:

d. A and B

14. The human need to belong preempts:

  1. The need for understanding
  2. The need for social control
  3. Controlled processes in social cognition
  4. All of the above

Answer:

a. The need for understanding

15. The dual-process model and continuum model of impression formation:

  1. Do not depend on motivation
  2. Both propose stable cognitive representations at different stages of impression formation
  3. Both suggest distinct rules for proceeding to each stage of impression formation
  4. Both involve an interplay of automatic and controlled processes

Answer:

d. Both involve an interplay of automatic and controlled processes

 

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