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IQ test we use today
Spearman
Gardner
Sternberg
Weschler
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Which part of the brain is involved in our procedural memory?
frontal lobe
cerebellum
hippocampus
basal ganglia
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This individual is well known for his studies on the influence of rehearsal in recall.
Ebbinghaus
Loftus
Piaget
Chomsky
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What is the serial position effect?
Loss of memory from the point of some injury
When people remember the beginning and end of a list better
Step by step procedures
Remembering information, but not where you learned it
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A bell-shaped curve indicates...
reliability
standardized distribution
validity
normal distribution
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_________ are cognitive rules we apply to stimuli that allow us to categorize our surroundings.
prototypes
images
concepts
schemata
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__________ refers to negative ideas/feelings of certain groups' intelligence that affect scores
Heritability ratio
Stereotype threat
Socioeconomic disadvantage
Reaction range
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You need ketchup, so you walk up and down every aisle at the grocery store to find it- this is a(n):
heuristic
algorithm
fixation
concept
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What are the three memory processes?
STM, LTM, and episodic memory
Encoding, memory, and retrieval
Iconic, episodic, and latent
Encoding, storage, and retrieval
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What is iconic memory?
Auditory sensory memory
Where information is held while it is conscious
Visual sensory memory
Memory about facts or general knowledge
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When you don't remember where you learned a piece of information:
deja vu
misinformation effect
infantile amnesia
source amnesia
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Episodic memory is _____
Events experienced by a person
Procedural memory
Classical Conditioning
Memory for skills, habits, and conditioned responses
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If a person doesn't like the government, they will seek out evidence to support their opinion.
Belief perseverence
Confirmation Bias
Functional fixedness
Algorithm
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A(n) ____ judges a situation based on how similar the aspects are to prototypes a person holds
algorithm
schemata
availability heuristic
representative heuristic
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It is better to study for the week leading up to a test, rather than just the night before.
serial position effect
spacing effect
priming
chunking
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Being classically conditioned to flinch at the sound of your mom yelling your name:
explicit memory
implicit memory
episodic memory
semantic memory
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If you receive roughly the same score on a test after multiple administrations, it is...
reliable
psychological
valid
standardized
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What is infantile amnesia?
Loss of memory from the point of some injury
When you can't remember the first few years of your life
The ability to recall images after only mere exposure
The theory the memory decays over times
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One is a bun; two is a shoe; three is a tree; four is a door...which mnemonic?
method of loci
peg word
acronym
visual encoding
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When we pay attention to important or novel information we encode it into our:
long -term memory
sensory memory
working/short term memory
brain
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What is Noam Chomsky known for?
being the president
his work with wire mother monkeys
we are wired to learn language
the Stanford prison experiment
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The more you do a task, the less prompting your sending neuron will need to send it's message.
automatic processing
long term potentiation
synaptic changes
effortful processing
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A(n) _____ judges a situation based on examples of similar situations that come to mind
availability heuristic
concept
representative heuristic
algorithm
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g Factor
Gardner
Sternberg
Weschler
Spearman
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A college readiness exam predicted Gina will be a A student, but she flunks out, meaning...
Gina cheated
the test is not standardized
the test is not valid
the test is valid but not reliable
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8 intelligences
Gardner
Spearman
Sternberg
Weschler
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What is the difference between divergent and convergent thinking?
divergent is many answers; convergent is one answer
divergent is two answers; convergent is three answers
divergent is one answer; convergent is many answers
they are the same
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What is implicit (nondeclarative) memory?
All of the above
Memory for skills
Memory for habits
A type of long-term memory
29
The word dogs has ____ morphemes.
4
2
5
3
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IQ tests have to often be re-normed as standards become more difficult, explained by...
factor analysis
heritability ratios
reaction ranges
the Flynn effect
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What is maintenance rehearsal?
the process of repeatedly verbalizing a piece of information
Where information is held while it's being used
Occurs when newly learned information interferes with old
Memory about facts/general knowledge
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The word dogs has ____ phonemes
3
4
2
5
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What is functional fixedness?
presentation of a fact framed from a particular perspective
A tendency to approach situations the same way
a tendency to view objects as only working in a certain way
Favoring information that confirms your beliefs
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What is explicit (declarative) memory?
Memory for skills
General facts and personal experience
Where information is held while it's being used
Memory for habits
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What is syntax?
all of the above
Speech during two-word stage of language acquisition
Rules for combining words and phrases
basic unit of sound
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What is insight?
A tendency to approach situations the same way
when exposure to one stimulus influences a response
Smallest unit of meaning
the sudden perception of a solution to a problem
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How long does short-term memory last without rehearsal?
Forever
up to 30 Seconds
up to 11 minutes
up to 45 seconds
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What is retrograde amnesia?
when you can't remember the first few years of life
loss of memory before the point of some injury
Memory for anything new becomes impossible
when you're able to remember info, not where you learned it
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Being able to remember your new locker combination but not the one from middle school:
Retroactive interference
Proactive interference
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What study was Elizabeth Loftus famous for?
Eyewitness testimony
The Stanford prison experiment
Little Alfred
Asch line experiment
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A tool for analyzing clusters of traits to look for similarities:
factor analysis
standardization
bell curve
intelligences
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Anterograde amnesia is when memory for anything new becomes impossible.
True
False
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Language affects the way we think.
telegraphic language
liguistic relativity
intuition
linguistic determinism
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Fluid intelligence includes all of the following except...
problem solving skills
processing speed
reasoning ability
knowledge over time
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At his first birthday party, you note that the baby is speaking in single words.
telegraphic stage
receptive language stage
holophrastic stage
fast mapping
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This type of processing allows you to read this this sentence and not see the error right away.
parallel processing
working memory
effortful processing
automatic processing
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What is recall?
Retrieval in which we "pull out" information from memory
Memory that involves identifying stored information
Chucking long numbers into parts
Saying material repeatedly to commit it to memory
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Midterms, finals, and most standardized tests, which assess your knowledge of a subject, are...
personality tests
achievement tests
aptitude tests
intelligence tests
