U2 & U3 Review 2025

Our immediate short-term memory for new material is limited to roughly ___ bits of information.

A newborn is in this stage of Piaget's cognitive development

In the Little Albert experiment, the loud noise (banging pipe) was the:

Tests designed to assess what a person has learned.

All of the following are examples of Gardner's multiple intelligences except:

IQ stands for

When given a list of items, most people tend to:

The most genetically similar people have the most similar intelligence scores.

A child MASTERS conservation at this stage.

A child that fails to look for a ball if covered with a blanket lacks this cognitive milestone.

A survey of 3rd graders, 5th graders, 7th graders was completed and the results were compared

The process of getting information into memory is called:

After prolonged exposure to TV violence, viewers became more indifferent to violence. This is:

Cognitive psychologists are most directly concerned with the study of:

Basic intelligence that predicts our abilities in varied academic areas:

Jean Piaget was famous for stages of __________ development

One criticism of the WAIS is:

"Analytical, creative & practical intelligences" are a feature of which theory?

Semantic encoding refers to the processing of:

Accord to Ainsworth, a child with a secure attachment will ____ when mom leaves the room

Which is a criticism of Gardner's multiple intelligences?

_____ is an emotional tie between infant and parent.  Studied by Harlow and Ainsworth.

The labels: easy, difficult, and slow-to-warm-up are used to refer to differences in:

In this type of conditioning we deal with involuntary (automatic responses) behavior

A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test:

A condition in which a person limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill:

The smell of freshly baked bread brings back childhood memories. The aroma is:

Who argued that humans have multiple intelligences?

In this type of conditioning, we deal with voluntary behavior

Susan felt she got an 80 on her biology test when, in fact, she scored a 55. This illustrates:

Which is defined as the smallest unit of sound of a language?

Linguist Benjamin Whorf believed that the way we think about and view the world is influenced by:

Tests designed to predict a person's future performance/capacity to learn.

A method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with others:

The most widely used intelligence tests; contains verbal & nonverbal performance subtests.

A period of time when something must happen or it probably never will (things like language)

Widely used American version (by Terman at Stanford) of Binet's original intelligence test:

Harry Harlow studied the role of ________ in attachment

Which is designed to make the response LESS likely to occur?

Sally quit gambling after she lost more than a thousand dollars. This best illustrates:

People should avoid back-to-back study times for learning Spanish and French to minimize:

Tendency for children to give animalistic qualities to inanimate objects.

Conscious memory of factual information is called __________________ memory.

This is the organization of information into meaningful units.

The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information is:

In the Little Albert experiment, the white fuzzy rat was:

When Fred mentions a fish, Tyrell automatically thinks of a tarpon. In this case, a tarpon is

This type of intelligence can be demonstrated in reacting to new situations & generating ideas:

Associating a CS with a new neutral stimulus can create a second CS. This is:

The symptoms of FAS, fetal alcohol syndrome, demonstrates that alcohol is a:

The original IQ test was developed...

This is the criteria for assigning meaning to the morphemes in a language

Condition of intellectual disability & associated physical disorders caused by extra chromosome

A "time-out" for bad behavior is considered:

Which researcher is most closely associated with classical conditioning?

Jane is having difficulty with her math class. No matter how long she studies, she can't seem to pass. She might develop

The midlife crisis might happen in this stage

Using this, a trainer shapes behavior by getting the animal to perform closer & closer behavior

This is the ideal parenting style according to Diane Baumrind

Mirror neurons most clearly provide us with the capacity for:

Automatic processing occurs without:

A child has a sense of ____ when he knows that's himself in the mirror and not another baby

This is Erikson's stage for teenagers (adolescents)

What is the time that Pavlov spent ringing the bell AND presenting the food to the dogs known as?

Speed reading complex material yields little long term retention because it inhibits:

A person engages in advanced hypothetical thinking (example: metacognition) at this stage

Intelligence tests can contain bias based on a group's education & life/cultural experiences.

Which of the following is an example of a secondary sex characteristic?

A breastfeeding infant is in this Erikson psycho-social stage of development

This is the strictest parenting style

A sudden realization of a solution to a problem is:

Ability to perceive, understand, manage & use emotions:

Cognitive psychologists are most directly concerned with the study of:

"Street smarts" is more technically known as

The disruptive effect of prior learning (old) on the recall of new information is:

A child's learned fear of needles is a(n):

Research has found that an individual's expectations about test performance impacts performance

Sally gives her son a treat when he cleans his room. This is an example of:

Authoritarian parents are especially likely to be:

To teach an animal a sequence of behaviors, trainers use a procedure known as:

Bandura's experiments indicate that _____ is important in the process of learning.

After prolonged exposure to TV violence, viewers became more indifferent to violence. This is:

A child is ____ if he cannot see things from another's perspective

Generating multiple possible answers to a problem illustrates:

The Law of Effect:

To combine words into grammatically sensible sentences, we need to apply proper rules of:

A child that fails the beaker test lacks this quality.

B.F. Skinner's work elaborated what E.L. Thorndike had called:

"Human abilities are too diverse to be encapsulated by a single intelligence factor" criticizes

Black students have scored higher on intelligence tests when tested by Black people.

The tendency to recall the first items of a list:

A child doesn't cry when mom leaves and has a cool response when mom returns, then _ attachment

This reflex has a baby turn towards your finger or nipple when touched on the cheek.

??/Chronological age = results on Binet's IQ test:

Asking for dates is most likely to be reinforced on a _________ schedule

A sudden realization of the solution to a problem is called:

Kids were asked to do a survey every 2 years until they were 30 years old.  What type of study?

When Suzie hit her sister, her mom placed her in time-out by having her stand in a corner. This

Social Learning theory was developed by _____, and states that behavior is picked up through observational learning.

It is likely that Asian students outperform North American students on math tests because...

Fill-in-the-blank test questions measure ____; matching measures _____.

You can't find a hammer and don't realize that you can use your shoe to pound a nail is:

Who introduced the term behaviorism?

A reinforcer that is given after an unpredictable number of responses have been made is this:

An event that decreases the behavior that precedes it is a:

The integration of new information with knowledge retrieved from LTM involves:

Old people who look back on their life in a positive way experience (According to Erikson)