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Unit 5 Memory, Cognition and Intelligence
Unit 5 Memory, Cognition and Intelligence
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Asking leading questions like "you saw Jo outside the bank, correct" can lead to
availability heuristic
fixation
the misinformation effect
encoding failure
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traditional IQ is determined by
comparison to others your age
chronological age/mental age x 100
Chronological age - mental age x 100
Mental age/chronological age x 100
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Guys has a severe cognitive disorder but can draw people with life-like accuracy, this is explained by
the g-factor
autism spectrum disorder
the Mozart effect.
savant syndrome
4
a reading comprehension test that includes picture puzzles has
low predictive validity
low reliability
high standardization
low content validity
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Which of the following is true of the g factor
if you do well on 1 cognitive test, you will do well on all
the g factor is more thought to be a skill, not an intelligence.
other types of intelligence matter, not just cognitive
strengths and weaknesses might exist in cognitive abilities
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Gardner believed there was
7 different intelligences
one g factor of intelligence
3 different intelligences
8 different intelligences
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Ebbinghaus' Forgetting Curve shows us
long term memory has a limited capacity
short term memory has unlimited capacity
once learned, all information will be easy to retrieve
information fades over time when not rehearsed
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Which of the following allows you to make the quickest decisions when under pressure
heuristics
divergent thinking
algorithms
priming
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As you walk into AP psych you suddenly remember you forgot to do your HW, this is explained by
the context effect
automatic processing
State dependent memory
source amnesia
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If Li is in the 60th percentile, it means
he scored as good or better than 60% of fellow test takers
His mental age is 6
He got 60% of the questions correct
He received the 60th highest score on the test
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Every time Liz tries to recall last years teacher she can only remember her current teachers
decay theory
retrieval failure
proactive interference
retroactive interference
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All of the following are true of standardized tests EXCEPT
scores only have meaning when compared to others
they are designed to create a normal distribution
they take your mental age into account
results are given as a percentage of the test taking population
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You assume Jo-Bob doesn't like opera because he's from the country and, well, he's named Jo-Bob
availability heuristic
representative heuristic
fixation
intuition
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Which of the following developed an intelligence test that included both verbal and performance tasks?
Alfred Binet
Lewis Terman
David Wechsler
Charles Spearman
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long term memories such as personal experience and facts are processed by
hippocampus
frontal lobe
cerebellum
basal ganglia
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Bo is cognitively gifted but often gets frustrated and yells because he has trouble managing stress, he has low
mental age
intelligence quotient
g-factor
emotional intelligence
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which helps you sort information in a way that helps you make assumptions/heuristics later
prototypes
fixation
context dependent memory
algorithms
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Gil's feelings of joy on his anniversary with Hal makes him remember even more good memories
repression
mood-congruent memory
context effect
explicit memory
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Even when provided with nonsense syllables, information can be retained if
it is viewed for less than a second
it is encoded with semantic processing
it is lacking context
it is encoded with shallow processing
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Cece notices she's more expressive when she is speaking french compared to dutch, this shows
mood-congruent memory
nativism
linguistic determinism
the context effect
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Which type of test is developed in order to predict your future performance
standardized
diagnostic
achievement
aptitude
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Temporary and limited capacity memory is called
Rehearsed memory
flashbulb memory
long term memory
short term memory
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Yu has been told a story from her childhood so much she believes it is her own memory, this is
state-dependent memory
schema distortion
source amnesia
self-reference effect
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Ms. Z calls you out for zoning out but surprisingly you repeat her last sentence, this shows
implicit memory
syntax
semantic memory
echoic memory
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Which of the following is true of data that forms a normal curve
the mode will always be below the mean
majority of scores are in one standard deviation of average
the value of each standard deviation will vary
the mean test score will be much higher than the average
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Which of the following states we are most likely to forget items in the middle of a list
the spacing effect
chunking
serial position effect
Context-dependent memory
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Gio has a successful group of chain cafes despite dropping out of school, according to the Triarchic theory
he has high practical intelligence
he has high analytical intelligence
he has low creative intelligence
He has low emotional intelligence
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The WAIS is useful for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
it measures adult intelligence
it focuses on likes and preferences
it tests multiple areas of intelligence
it focuses on non-verbal questions
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Elise insists her banker is still a moral person, even after he was convicted for abuse
mental set
confirmation bias
convergent thinking
belief perseverance
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Trying to assign a score to intelligence even though it is an abstract concept is an example of
factor analysis
self-referential effect
Flynn Effect
reification error
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which of the following is the best example of insight
You assume Rick is smart cause he has glasses
you work through every possible option to find the solution
You apply the same process to every new problem
you laugh b/c you suddenly get the joke you heard at lunch
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Ned can't figure out that if he use a few books stacked on each other as a bedside table,
functional fixedness
availability heuristic
intuition
trial and error
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Vi is liberal and so will only watch MSNBC (a liberal station) to get political information
functional fixedness
belief perseverance
confirmation bias
concept
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Jen had a brief mental image of what was on her ipad screen before it died, This is called
proactive interference
iconic memory
episodic memory
echoic memory
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Memory that works as a "mental workbench" where we edit and change information is called
episodic memory
working memory
implicit memory
long term memory