The Flynn effect refers to:

IQ scores rising over generations

Store more information in short-term memory

The primacy effect refers to

Better recall of items at the beginning

The spacing effect indicates

Distributed practice improves retention

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AP Psychology Unit 2 Review

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1
The tendency to persist with familiar strategies is
Functional fixedness
mental set
Perseverance bias
Framing effect
2
The cocktail party effect is an example of
selective attention
auditory adaptation
inattentional blindness
sensory interaction
3
Context-dependent memory is recalled best when
Time of day matches testing
Environment matches encoding
State of emotion is matched
Testing is multiple choice
4
The Flynn effect refers to:
SAT scores dropping steadily
IQ scores rising over generations
Overuse of intelligence tests
Intelligence decreasing with age
5
Chunking is used to
Improve semantic memory
Increase attention span
Suppress interference
Store more information in short-term memory
6
A reliable test
Has consistent results
Measures what it's supposed to
Covers multiple abilities
Is free of cultural bias
7
A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples is the
Representative heuristic
Availability heuristic
Anchoring effect
Priming bias
8
Afterimages are explained by which theory of color vision?
frequency theory
trichromatic theory
opponent-process theory
place theory
9
The primacy effect refers to
Equal recall throughout
Better recall of the middle items
Better recall of items at the end of a list
Better recall of items at the beginning
10
The spacing effect indicates
Forgetting curve timing
Sleep has no effect on memory
Massed practice improves retention
Distributed practice improves retention
11
Which concept explains why we forget unused memories quickly?
Decay theory
Repression
Tip-of-the-tongue
Encoding specificity
12
Which monocular cue helps determine distance through texture clarity?
retinal disparity
convergence
texture gradient
linear perspective
13
Encoding failure occurs when
Retrieval cues are missing
Brain plasticity declines
Information is never stored
Encoding failure occurs when
14
What process strengthens neural connections through repeated use?
Refractory period
Neurogenesis
Long-term potentiation
Synaptic pruning
15
Problem-solving strategy that guarantees a solution
Heuristic
Bias
Algorithm
Intuition
16
What term describes a mental framework that organizes information?
Bias
Sensory set
Heuristic
Schema
17
What type of memory includes specific personal experiences?
Episodic memory
Procedural memory
Semantic memory
Implicit memory
18
Which process uses prior knowledge to interpret sensory information?
absolute threshold
transduction
bottom-up processing
top-down processing
19
Intelligence that includes multiple specific abilities is proposed by:
Gardner
Terman
Binet
Spearman
20
What is the name for a memory of how to ride a bike?
Episodic memory
Semantic memory
Iconic memory
Procedural memory

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