Cognition and Intelligence Review

Question 1

Studying for a test 15 min/day for 8 days is better than cramming for 2 hours the night before

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this illustrates the spacing effect

Question 2

Identifying suspects from a police lineup using which test of memory?

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recognition

Question 3

Which of the following best illustrates Sternberg's concept of analytical intelligence?

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Solving complicated math problems in record time

Question 4

Noam Chomsky argues that children's readiness to learn language is a(n)

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biological predisposition

Question 5

Words stored in echoic memory will last for 3-4 _____

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seconds

Question 6

It is most likely that a child with an intellectual disability

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will have difficulty adapting to normal demands of adulthood

Question 7

The distribution of intelligence test scores in the general population forms the bell-shaped

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normal curve

Question 8

Everyone would agree that intelligence tests are "biased" in the sense that

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test performance is influenced by cultural experiences

Question 9

Telegraphic speech is most closely associated with the ____ stage of language development

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two-word

Question 10

In English, adjectives precede nouns. This is a rule of syntax, which is the

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orderly arrangement of words into grammatical sentences

Question 11

The integration of new incoming info w/knowledge retrieved from LTM involves the activity of

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working memory

Question 12

It would be reasonable to suggest that the Flynn effect is due in part to

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increasingly improved childhood health and nutrition

Question 13

How many phonemes are in the word "bats"?

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3

Question 14

Although not larger or heavier in total size, Einstein's brain was 15% larger in the lower

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parietal lobe

Question 15

The WAIS is for testing _____ and the WISC is designed to test _____

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adults, children

Question 16

Who would have been most enthusiastic about the value of a single intelligence score

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Spearman

Question 17

Sorting kids into "Gifted" education programs are most likely to be criticized for

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widening the achievement gap between higher and lower groups

Question 18

When reciting a previously heard list of items, you are most likely to forget the items

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in the middle of the list

Question 19

Lewis Terman's widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test was the

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Stanford-Binet

Question 20

The eugenics movement would have been most likely to encourage

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selective breeding of highly intelligent people

Question 21

Showing a lack of self-insight best illustrates an inadequate level of

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emotional intelligence

Question 22

The similarity between the intelligence test scores of identical twins raised apart is

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greater than that between ordinary siblings reared together

Question 23

Which of the following refers to a person's ability to reason speedily and abstractly?

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fluid intelligence

Question 24

Saying that an IQ test "doesn't seem to measure intelligence" is equivalent to saying it lacks

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validity

Question 25

The original IQ formula would be LEAST appropriate for representing the performance of

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high school students

Question 26

About __ percent of WAIS scores fall between 85 and 115.

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68

Question 27

Which illustrates psychology's understanding of the relationship btwn thinking & language

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thinking affects language, which then affects our thoughts

Question 28

____ memories have a limited duration without active processing and rehearsal

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short-term

Question 29

The French government commissioned Binet to develop an intelligence test that would

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reduce need to rely on teacher's judgments of students

Question 30

Thurstone identified 7 clusters of mental abilities, he claimed that word fluency

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involves a different dimension of intelligence than resoning

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