Unit 2 Review

There seems to be a high correlation between vocabulary, spatial ability, and verbal reasoning tests. This supports ___

Jason Bourne has no memory of his past life, of who he is or why someone would want to assassinate him. He is suffering

Sperling's study used a fixation point, three lines of letters, and a time interval to test:

What problem solving strategies are essentially mental shortcuts?

Working backwards (backward chaining) is a good strategy to follow when

A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic

As described in lecture, a normative approach to problem-solving

An expert problem-solver finds herself unable to explain how she solves problems. Researchers refer to this as

A/An ___________ is a rule of thumb we use to simplify some types of problem solving.

The modal model of memory, the most widely accepted model, proposes that memory

A/an ___________ is a step-by-step, analytic formula we use for other types of problem solving.

As discussed in lecture, a descriptive approach to problem-solving

____ is a method of drawing conclusions by going from the specific to the general.

The Peterson and Peterson study used nonsense syllables and counting backwards for different intervals of time to test

The Linguistic Relativity hypothesis proposes:

Juan forgets some of what he learned from the Psy 1001 lecture last week. The natural forgetting that occurs is called

Which of the following explains why Jim can remember song lyrics from 25 years ago?

A researcher determines that the correlation between IQ and twins is .35. most likely, the twins are

According to the levels-of-processing theory information likely enters into long-term memory by

When you listen to a lecture, the information is held in your _________ memory for a short period of time

You like coffee and regularly look through magazines to find headlines that encourage you to drink more coffee. This is

If you retake a test and get results that are similar to scores you received the first time, the test is most likely

What concept in psychology does Duncker's Candle problem illustrate?

Which psychologist created the idea of mental age?

You were asked to memorize a list of 15 words and then recall as many as you could. The serial position effect predicts

Recent research on the relationship between language and thought has _______________________.

A problem solving strategy such as forward chaining is an effective problem strategy when

When describing details of a trip and the places you went, you are primarily accessing which long-term memory system

Putting groups of numbers together to help in remembering is known as

In classical conditioning, the stimulus that naturally evokes an unlearned response is the...

A problem solving strategy such as forward chaining is an effective problem strategy when:

In answering this, and all other questions for this exam, you are making use of...

You are trying to remember pairs of words such as "lake" and "football." You decide to create a meaningful picture

A highly vivid and detailed emotional memory that retains its vividness yet which may change its details over time ____

Knowing the name of the president of the United States of America is an example of what kind of memory?

The ability to produce solutions to problems that are novel and successful is called

Computers are good at solving problems using the step-by-step method known as ________________.

Of the following, IQ scores are most highly correlated with ______________________________ .

The mysterious finding that IQ scores have steadily increased since 1950 is known as ______

To answer specific questions by using the accumulated knowledge of the world acquired over time, we rely on our

The ability to identify the origins of a memory is known as...

A _____________ is the sequence of letters of your genome while your _______________ is a measure of a trait.

The memory system which maintains information in a relatively pure and unanalyzed form is called:

When an expert in the field struggles to teach introductory concepts, this is known as

Which of these practices is most consistent with eugenics?

Sensitization can be viewed as an evolutionary adaptation that keeps humans safer because

One reason that we are susceptible to the representativeness heuristic is that we...

According to research by Ebbinghaus rapid forgetting occurs after learning new material and when one attempts to relearn

As discussed in lecture, the stability of IQ over time is

Does providing a label for a picture help or hurt our memory?

An important source of false memories comes from ________________________.

Jim and John are fraternal(dizygotic)twins that were reared apart. If they have similar personalities, it can be due to

The form of memory that holds information long enough for you to pay attention is

As described in lecture, deductive reasoning is used when you

The memory system which maintains information in a relatively pure, unanalyzed form is called:

As described in lecture, which of the following is an example of episodic memory

If you tend to persist in using the same problem solving strategy time after time, you are