What is an example of overextension?

When a baby says the word 'dog' to a cat.

What is functional fixedness?

to think of things only in terms of their usual functions

What is the BEST example of a mental set?

Solving all math problems by adding, multiplying, then squaring the numbers

What is an example of availability heuristic?

Watching Jaws and being afraid of swimming in the ocean

test-retest reliability

administering a test at two different times provides similar results

How well a test represents the underlying theoretical model

Triarchic Theory of Intelligence

Analytical, practical, creative

The Flynn Effect is the finding that...

Intelligence seems to increase with every generation.

Which example shows overconfidence?

Skipping study time because you believe you’ll ace the test without it

What is framing effect?

Picking a treatment with a 70% success rate over one with 20% failure rate

Which of the following is an example of the representativeness heuristic?

Assuming a tall person plays basketall

seeking evidence to support an idea, rather than refute it

You continued watching a boring movie because the tickets were expensive

Metalinguistic awareness is

the ability to think and talk about language

What is a holophrase?

one word that means a whole sentence

The hindsight bias refers to people's tendency to

to believe they have foreseen the outcome of past events.

What is episodic memory?

Memory of specific experienced events

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semantic memory
your memory for meanings and general (impersonal) facts
loss of memory for events immediately following a trauma
the power of retaining and recalling past experience
Memory of one's personal experiences
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Divergent Thinking
Thinking in a variety of ways to solve problems
Coming up with one right answer or way to do a task
The use of logic based on what has been experienced
The act or process of knowing
3
Jerome scores 2 standard deviations above the mean, his score is...
100
130
85
115
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What is an example of overextension?
When a boy says 'mom' to his mother.
When a boy stands at the door and says 'hi'.
When a baby says the word 'dog' to a cat.
When a girl says shoe to her converse.
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What is functional fixedness?
inability to see a problem from a new perspective
judging the likely hood of t hings
to think of things only in terms of their usual functions
the tendency to approach a problem in a particular way
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Fluid intelligence
Does not change until about age 75
Has not been measured over time
Decreases slowly with old age
Increases slowly with old age
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What is the BEST example of a mental set?
2 doctors seeing similar symptoms but making different diagnoses
Christmas occurring each year
Doing what another person does
Solving all math problems by adding, multiplying, then squaring the numbers
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Anterograde amnesia
Inability to form new memories
Previously stored memories when retrieved are altered.
Faulty memory for how, when, or where info. was learned.
Inability to retrieve info. from one’s past.
9
a ten year old who has an IQ of 120 has a mental age of what?
10
13
12
11
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What is an example of availability heuristic?
Being attacked by a shark
Watching Jaws and being afraid of swimming in the ocean
Scuba diving with sharks.
Watching finding Nemo and assuming all clownfish are funny
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test-retest reliability
comparing results of half of tests with the other half
administering a test at two different times provides similar results
test measures all aspects of what it's designed to measure
Related items on a test provide similar responses
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Construct validity
Whether a measurement is associated with a future result on a valid test
Whether a measurement is associated with another related measure
How well a test represents the underlying theoretical model
Whether a test measures all or only part of what it's supposed to measure
13
In a normal distribution, what % of the population score within a standard dev. of the mean
100 %
68%
15%
34%
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Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
verbal, mathematical, spatial
Practical, interpersonal, creative
Experimental, intrapersonal, creative
Analytical, practical, creative
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The Flynn Effect is the finding that...
Intelligence seems to increase with every generation.
Linguistic skills decline with age.
Television has decreased intellectual performance.
The more people take a test, the better they tend to score.
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The word dogs has how many morphemes
One morpheme
Two morphemes
Three morphemes
Four morphemes
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Which example shows overconfidence?
Practicing for a test because you want to do well
Asking for help when you need it
Skipping study time because you believe you’ll ace the test without it
Taking a practice test to see how you do
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What is framing effect?
Making different decisions based on how information is presented
Preferring familiar diagnoses over complex ones
Ignoring alternative diagnoses due to pre-existing biases
Picking a treatment with a 70% success rate over one with 20% failure rate
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Which of the following is an example of the representativeness heuristic?
Solving a problem by breaking it down into smaller parts
Judging a situation by a rule that is usually true.
Making a judgment according to past experiences.
Assuming a tall person plays basketall
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Confirmation bias
the inability to look from another perspective, in order to maintain belief
fast, automatic, unreasoned feelings and thoughts
tendency to approach a problem with a method that worked previously
seeking evidence to support an idea, rather than refute it
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Sunk Cost Fallacy
I will quit anything that produce dissatisfaction regardless the cost.
You extended a lease rental that was expiring due to the building location.
You don't care about what you spend on a bad meal, you will not eat it.
You continued watching a boring movie because the tickets were expensive
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The mean of the Wechsler IQ Bell curve is
115
70
100
85
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Metalinguistic awareness is
the ability to think and talk about language
the ability to connect the distinctive sounds in words to letters
understanding of the mapping principles between sounds and meaning
the ability to recognize writing from other visual marks
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The word hotdog has how many phonemes?
ten phonemes
six phonemes
Two phonemes
One phoneme
25
This number measures variance (distance from the center of the bell curve)
standard deviation
the null hypothesis
variance ratio
skewed distribution
26
Turn this fixed mindset thought into a growth mindset thought... "I can't do this"
I hate this
I'll never be able to do this
I'm giving up
I can get better if I practice
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What is a holophrase?
misuse of a phrase
one word that means a whole sentence
a common expression
a sentence that is overextended
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The hindsight bias refers to people's tendency to
assume that correlation proves causation.
reject any ideas that cannot be scientifically tested.
to believe they have foreseen the outcome of past events.
dismiss the value of replication.
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Reliability can be best described as:
being am honest and reliable researcher
testing what you are meant to test
measurement that reflects what it was intended to measure
the consistency of measurement
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What is episodic memory?
Memory of events that have never taken place
Memory that is used unconsciously
Memory of recollected episodes
Memory of specific experienced events

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