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Unit 2 Most Missed Module 31-34, Most Missed Unit 1 Summative, & Retrieval of Modules 35-60
Unit 2 Most Missed Module 31-34, Most Missed Unit 1 Summative, & Retrieval of Modules 35-60
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Professor Maslova has so many memories of old students that she has difficulty remembering the names of new students.
Retroactive interference
Proactive interference
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First few years of life language develops best and after this, language acquisition is much more difficult
Linguistic determinism - Mr. Whorf
Critical period
Universal Grammer - Mr. Chomsky
3
Automatic processing occurs without
conscious awareness
sensory memory
4
A mental set is a
tendency to approach a problem in a way that has been successful before.
group of conclusions derived from certain assumptions or general principles
5
a process by which synaptic connections between neurons become stronger with frequent activation
long term potentiation
Proactive interference
6
Which of the following offers the best explanation for infantile amnesia?
The hippocampus is one of the last brain structures to mature.
The emotional reactivity of infants inhibits the process of encoding.
Saving all of life experiences disrupts the retrieval of early life events.
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Factor analysis has been used to assess whether
intelligence is a single trait or a collection of distinct abilities.
intelligence is determined primarily by heredity or by experience.
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If you get broken up with and you are sad, you are primed to remember memories that match your mood
retroactive interference.
mood-congruent memory.
long-term potentiation
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What technique do researchers use to reduce the impact of third variables (aka confounding variables)?
measures of central tendency
random assignment
naturalistic observation
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Evelyn wants to know how consistent her bowling scores have been during the past season. What measure would be best?
mean
scatterplot
standard deviation
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Which of the following best describes the graph above
Normal distribution
Negatively skewed distribution
Positively skewed distribution
12
The inability to remember events in one's life which occurred prior to a brain injury is known as
anterograde amnesia.
retrograde amnesia.
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Spearman's g factor refers to
the internal consistency of an intelligence test.
general intelligence underlies success on a wide variety of tasks
the genetic contribution to intelligence.
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If John only asks people to sample his cupcakes, that hate cupcakes, he can't take it to seriously because his sample is
a sampling bias.
a replication error.
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A powerful effortful processing strategy based on encoding with personal semantics or personal life experiences is
Self reference effect
Iconic memory
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Correlational research is most useful for purposes of
Predictions
Causation
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It is very difficult to get someone to change his or her unrealistically negative self-image. This best illustrates the
belief perseverance.
the representativeness heuristic.
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Tendency to guess that a person who likes to read poetry is more likely to be a college professor than a truck driver
the representativeness heuristic.
the availability heuristic.
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Including false memories into your re-constructed long term memories is an example of the
misinformation effect
Deja vu
Mood congruent memory
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Christmas is to holiday as ________ is to ________.
category; prototype
prototype; category
