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Ben opts for UCR w/ its brick buildings & large,beautiful campus b/c it seems closer towhat a college should look like
Availability Heuristic
Representativeness Heuristic
Intuition
Divergent Thinking
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After ape solved problem of reaching a banana using crates, Kohler concludes the ape used what in problem solving?
Algorithms
Heuristics
Insight
Trial & Error
3
Micah can think about what happened in school and play piano at the same time. His ability best shows...
Automatic Processing
Stimulus Generalization
Framing
Cognitive Dissonance
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What is an example of chunking?
Grouping items on a list as "frozen foods", "dairy", and "fruits"
Rehearsing items on list for 5 min a day
Visually connecting items from list with a numbered list of rhymes
Mentally placing items from shopping list around house
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Melinda received identical scores on two different occasions when taking the same test. This suggests that the test has
Predictive Validity
Reliability
Standardization
Content Validity
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Han likely mistook the woman for themanager because he used which of thefollowing problem-solving strategies?
Algorithm
Incubation
Insight
Heuristic
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Older ppl's capacity to learn &remember meaningful material doesn'tdecline. This shows
Fluid Intelligence
Formal Operational Thought
Concrete Operational Thought
Crystallized Intelligence
8
Kevin guessed which hallway to go down. His problem strategy best illustrates...
Fixation
Trial & Error
The Availability Heuristic
Confirmation Bias
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After pres. debate, JD & Jill are certain their own candidate won, minimizing times they did poorly. Which best explains
Confirmation Bias
Availability Heuristic
Representativeness Heuristic
Overconfidence
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Children overregularize grammar when learning lang. This changes how which of the following views lang dvlpmnt
Behavioral
Evolutionary
Biological
Cognitive
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Ved thinks that boys are more trouble than girls, so she keeps watches boys closely. Her strategy shows...
The Representativeness Heuristic
Confirmation Bias
Intuition
Availability Heuristic
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Which of the following is the mostaccurate example of a procedural memory?
Riding bike to school
Reciting a sonnet you've memorized for English final
Quizzing yourself on psych terms before final
Recalling all 50 states
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Which of the following is the bestexample of the use of a heuristic?
Deciding that a 7 ft man must play pro basketball
Brainstorming ideas
Following a step by step
Trying on and discarding pairs of shoes to find the right pair
14
Students may not be rep. of the general population. This concern shows which of the following?
Interviewer Bias
Experimenter Bias
Confirmation Bias
Sampling Bias
15
Having difficulty remembering this year's Spanish vocab b/c of previous French classes represents
Multitasking
Retroactive Interference
Proactive Interference
Memory Reconstruction
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Loftus & Palmer found thatparticipants who heard the word “smashed”estimated greater speeds. Which is dependent variable
Number of participants
Wording of the questions
Location of the school
Reported speed of the cars
17
11mo Luis is workinghard at communicating w/ his family. He can only speak in 1-word phrases. This attempt is called
Holophrases
Telegraphic Speech
Cooing
Babbling
18
What type of test is the MCQ licensing exam?
Achievement Test
Personality Inventory
Aptitude Test
Vocational Test
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Raul & Soph got soaked on a picnic b/c they didn't think to use their tablecloth as rain shelter. Their oversight shows
Functional Fixedness
Belief Perseverance
Confirmation Bias
Availability Heuristic
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What are the three memory processes ofthe information processing model?
Encoding, Storage, Retrieval
Recall, Recognition, Relearning
Shallow, Intermediate, Deep Processing
Sensory, STM, LTM
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Which of the following best illustrates confirmation bias?
MacKenzie searches for evidence that supports her position on her paper
Brett believes he is an outstanding driver and others are average
Roger can't find his 1-cup measuring cup & fails to come up w/ alternative
Jeannette refuses to fly after seeing a news story about a plane crash
22
The graph above illustrates which of the following?
Hermann Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve
Spacing Effect
Serial Position Effect
Elaborative rehearsal on recall
23
Sara is studying for her psychology test.Which of the following methods is mostlikely to help her encode the information
Repeating each concept 10x
Creating personal examples and connections to the info
Grouping the concepts based on the letter each word starts with
Making flash cards of each word and its def
24
tendency to think that a person who likes to read poetry is more likely to be a professor of classics than a truckdriver
Confirmation Bias
Representativeness Heuristic
Availability Heuristic
Framing Effect
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Despite evidence showing Senator McEwan was corrupt, many of her supporters stuck to her side. This shows
Belief Perseverance
Availability Heuristic
Representativeness Heuristic
Functional Fixedness
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The written exam for a driver's licensewould most likely be considered a(n)________ test.
Reliability
Achievement
Aptitude
Interest
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Ability to think abstractly, reason quickly, identify patterns, and integrate information is..
Fluid Intelligence
Intrapersonal Intelligence
Crystallized Intelligence
Practical Intelligence
28
Rach's car won't start. To find the problem she decided to go alphabetically through the repair checklist, demonstrating
Algorithm
Heuristic
Fixation
Insight
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A teacher can tell her the difference in her students' facial expressions. Her perceptual skills best shows..
Reliability
Analytical Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence
Factor Analysis
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As she was falling asleep thatnight, a solution to the problem popped intoher head. Amira's experience best illustrates
Insight
Heuristic
A Mental Set
Belief Perseverance
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Which of the following examples mostaccurately illustrates mood congruentmemory?
Jen was flooded w/ sad memories after break-up
Lilian could recall where she was when JFK was shot
After a stroke, Brad could member his past but unable to form new memories
Megan can only remember first and last few items on grocery list
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Which research method did these investigators use to study the impact of belief on performance?
Correlational
Survey
Naturalistic Observation
Experiment
33
Carrie finds that studying for 10 minutes each night vs cramming the night before helps her remember more. She's using
Spacing Effect
Semantic Encoding
Testing Effect
Serial Position Effect
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Sally (3yo) describesto her mother how good her chicken nuggetsare by saying, “It ated them all up!” This BEST shows
Semantic Processing
Overgeneralization
Holophrasing
Telegraphic Speech
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After a stroke, Martha can say words,but her sentences are meaningless. Whatpart of her brain has been damaged?
Broca's Area
Angular Gyrus
Fusiform Gyrus
Wernicke's Area
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Which groups acted as the control
No need for a control
Group 1
Group 3
Group 2
37
Noam Chomsky believed which of thefollowing about language?
Children learn language faster if they watch others speak
Children must be talked to often in order to acquire language
Children. learn language through reinforcement
Children are born with the ability to acquire knowledge
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Eleven-month-old Gabby says thingslike “go”, “bye,” and “up” when talking toher family. Gabby is MOST likely in
Babbling Stage
Telegraphic Stage
1-Word Stage
2-Word Stage
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Which intelligence researcher noted thatperformance on IQ tests has increasedconsistently since the 1930s?
William Stern
Lewis Terman
James Flynn
Alfred Binet
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Alex is mentally handicapped & can't read/write. After hearing complex music, she can play them on piano. Alex is...
Gifted w/ superior lvl of g factor
Someone with Savant Syndrome
Demonstrating a high lvl of Emotional Intelligence
Above avg in her capacity for inductive reasoning
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After learning the combo for his new locker at school, Milton can'tremember the combination for his 1yobicycle lock.
Proactive Interference
Source Amnesia
Encoding Failure
Retroactive Interference
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Even though the flash of lightdisappeared from the sky quickly, Allisoncould still briefly “see” the light. This shows
Flashbulb Memory
Implicit Memory
Iconic Memory
STM
43
Within a normal distribution, whatpercent of the population will fall between 85 and 115 on an IQ test?
99.7%
68%
95%
100%
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Arlene could try all key combos or go into drop down menu to copy and paste. Arlene is relying on...
Algorithms
Phonemes
Prototypes
Heuristics
45
While making a list, Jim startedthinking abt his thought process. WhenJim thought abt his own thinking he wasengaged in
Cognitive Dissonance
Fundamental Attribution Error
Metacognition
Priming
46
5yo Wilbur performs on anintelligence test at a level characteristic ofan average 4yo. Wilbur's mental ageis
5
80
4
4.5
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research shows that there's a decrease in performance when ppl think that others'll judge them based on group- this is..
Fixation
Belief Perseverance
Framing
Stereotype Threat
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Which was the first intelligence test created to identify children who benefit from extra help prior to school
Weschler
Stanford-Binet
Factor Analysis
Binet-Simon
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The neurological basis for long termmemories stored in the brain is called___________.
Action Potential
Storage
Long Term Potentiation
Memory Consolidation