Unit 5: Cognitive Psychology

A test that fails to predict what it is designed to predict lacks

Presenting participants with 3 rows of 3 letters each for only a fraction of a second demonstrates:

Beef described at "75% lean" was given a higher rating than beef described as "25% fat." This can be best explained by

After seeing several news reports about garage thefts, you make a judgment that crime is increasing in your area. Why?

The tendency to immediately recall the first and last items in a list better than the middle items is known as the _____

Stan does not realize that his stapler can be used as a paper weight. This is an example of:

A lawyer uses misleading questions to distort a court witness' recall of a previously observed crime. This illustrates:

An eyewitness to a mugging is asked to describe the suspect to a sketch artist. Which test of memory is being utilized?

Because Ken is 6′6″, people often mistakenly assume that he must be a member of his college's basketball team. Why?

The discovery that words heard underwater are later better recalled underwater than on land best illustrates:

As his teacher was lecturing, Tim was thinking about competing in a swim meet. Where are his thoughts being processed?

Our biases & prior experiences influence how memories are retrieved from long-term memory. This explains:

Long-term memory is said to have:

After his last drinking spree, John hid a liquor bottle. He couldn't remember where he hid it until he started drinking

In the word "sock", the sound of the "s" is a(n) _____, whereas the use of the "s" to make the word plural is a(n) _____

Noam Chomsky suggested that diverse human languages share a

Ebbinghaus' retention curve best illustrates the value of

The process of encoding refers to:

Of the following, who best illustrates Sternberg's concept of analytical intelligence?

After learning the combo for his locker at school, Mel is unable to remember the combo for his year-old bike lock. Why?

In a normal distribution, approx. what % of scores occur within one standard deviation above and below the mean?

The part of the cerebral cortex that directs the muscle movements involved in speech is known as:

The oil dip stick in your car actually measures how much oil there is in the car's engine. Therefore, the dip stick is a

Most Americans still have accurate memories of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001. This best illustrates:

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

Although Art looks at his watch all the time, he is unable to recall whether it features Arabic or Roman

A test of your capacity to learn to be an automobile mechanic would be considered a(n) ________ test.

The smell of freshly baked bread awakened in Mr. Hutz vivid memories of his early childhood. The aroma apparently acted

A 12 y/o who responded to the original Stanford-Binet with the proficiency typical of an average 9 y/o had an IQ of:

People are likely to take less time to recognize a woman as a nurse than a man b/c a woman more closely represents their

Unlike implicit memories, explicit memories are processed by the

Spearman referred to the general capacity that may underlie all of a person's specific mental abilities as:

Long-term potentiation refers to

At 17 months, Julie says “wada” whenever she wants a drink of water. Julie is most likely in the __ stage of language:

Processing every possible combination of the letter DBIR to arrive at the word BIRD is an example of the use of

When 5-year-old Mitchell exclaimed, “I winned my race!” he was illustrating the tendency of young children to

Self-fulfilling expectations are most likely to be triggered by

Which of the following is the best example of the testing effect?

Dr. Wilson cannot remember the name of her advisor when she was in medical school 30 years ago. She "knows" she knows it

The notion that language determines the way people think and perceive the world is characteristic of: