AP Psych - Cognition Review

After a drinking spree, Matt hid a half empty bottle. He remembered it when he started drinking

If the test is testing what it's suppose to be testing, it is....

Exceptionally clear memories of emotionally significant events are called

Riding a bike is an example of automatic process (i.e. procedural memory)

Process of getting information into memory is called

If a test yields consistent results every time it is used, it has a high degree of 

Framing is similar to the wording effect. It can allow for different decisions based upon the language of a situation.

The human capacity for storing long-term memory is 

Which psychologists came up with the idea of general intelligence?

Which of the following psychologist believed that language skills are developed through imitation and reinforcement?

Tests designed to predict ability to learn new skills are called

The increase in synaptic firing potential that contributes to memory formation is known as

Often unconscious activation of particular associations in memory is called

An eyewitness to a robbery is asked to identify a suspect in a line up.What memory test is used

Belief perseverance is the tendency to cling to one's beliefs even when presented with information disproving

Encoding that occurs with no effort or a minimal level of conscious attention is known as

Your ability to recognize your mom's voice on the phone illustrates the value of

Intelligence tests were initially designed by Binet and Simon to assess academic aptitude

The Stanford-Binet, WAIS and WISC tests are all types of

The widespread improvement in intelligence test performance during the past century is called _________.

Robert Sternberg distinguished among analytical, practical, and ______ intelligence.

Ebbinghaus' retention curve best illustrates the value of

Tendency to immediately recall the first and last items in a list better than middle items

Process by which information is encoded by its meaning is called

The association of sadness with memories of negative life events contributes to

The tendency to remember the first few words and last few words is called......

Process of getting information out of memory is called

Psychologists use ____ to assess and compare individuals' mental aptitudes

Explicit memory is to long-term memory as iconic memory is to ______________memory

Proactive interference is the ability to learn new information is distorted by old information.

Tests designed to assess what a person has learned are called ______ tests.

Which type of intelligence is often related to critical thinking and abstract ideas?

Tendency for distributed study to yield better long-term retention than massed study is

An example pf a category can be called

Automatic processing and effortful processing involve two types of 

Organization of information into meaningful units

Which psychologist believed language is developed through nurture?

Howard Gardner identified a total of ____ intelligences

Memory aids that involve the use of vivid imagery and clever ways of organizing material are

When it comes to problem solving, it might be faster to use the heuristic approach.

Representativeness heuristic can be defined as

Which of the following best describes retroactive interfence?

Memory is best described as