Psychology Units 4-5 Test Review

Which psychologist created a modern theory that included eight different types of intelligence?

What type of mnemonic device associates items to be remembered with locations?

What does IQ stand for?

What is the smallest unit of sound that carries meaning in a language?

Which psychologist conditioned dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell?

True or False: Implicit memories are processed through the cerebellum.

The person observed in observational learning is called a what?

True or False: Achievement Tests predict the test-taker's future performance.

True or False: Distributed Practice means spreading rehearsal out over several sessions.

Anything that decreases the likelihood of a behavior by following it with an undesirable event or behavior?

Is the definition of the one and two word stages really as straight-forward as it seems?

Which of the following is NOT a part of the Information Processing System?

What is the name of the thing in the environment that causes a response in a subject?

What is the system of rules that govern how we combine phonemes, morphemes, and words to create meaning?

True or False: Massed practice is more beneficial for retention than distributed practice.

What is encoding information based on sounds?

In which experiment did children watch adults show aggressive behavior and then show the aggressive behavior themselves?

True or False: The Self-Reference Effect makes it more likely you will remember information relevant to you.

What is encoding information based on images?

What it is called when children apply grammar rules too broadly?

What refers to your ability to perceive, express, understand and regulate your own feelings and the feelings of others?

Anything that decreases the likelihood of a behavior by following it with the removal of a desirable event or state?

What refers to your tendency to approach problems a certain way based on your experiences?

True or False: Explicit memories are memories of procedures and skills.

What is the mental organization from least to most specific?

What is called when you memorize past the point of mastery to be better able to recall information in moment of stress?

What is the conscious repetition of information in order to better retain it?

What is a memory trick or technique called?

What reinforcement schedule is also called the "Gambler's Schedule" because it is the most addictive?

Anything that increases the likelihood of a behavior by following it with a desirable event or state?

True or False: Repression is largely thought to be scientifically proven.

What is encoding information that is meaninful to you?

What word refers to an action that will increase the likelihood of a behavior in the future?

What is the average score on the IQ test?

What is incorporating misinformation into your memory of an event or experience?

Would it be a good idea to be able to label a graphic of the Information Processing Theory?

Which of the following is NOT a memory storage system?

What is the name of producing different responses to two similar stimuli?

Which of these would NOT be an example of forgetting due to an encoding failure?

What is the type of learning in which a stimulus gains the power to cause a response in a subject?

The Serial Position Effect means you are more likely to remember things that come at what location in a list?

True or False: Test reliability refers to the extent which a test yields consistent results?

What is the smallest distinctive unit of sound?

Which of these make up language?

Which part of the brain being damaged would result in the inabilit to process new explicit memories?

What type of learning do occurs when you learn by watching others?

What is called when you avoid certain flavors due to their association with nauseau?

What reinforcement schedule is the most effective for establishing a new behavior?

What is a retrieval problem in which one memory gets in the way of remembering another?

Which of the following is NOT one of the three stages of language acquisition?

What is a mental set that hinders solving a problem?

How many chunks of information can be stored in short-term memory at a time?

What type of learning focuses on the frequency of a behavior changing based on the consequence?

True or False: All standardized tests yield consistent results across all demographic groups.

Anything that increases the likelihood of a behavior by following it with the removal of an undesirable event or state?

What occurs when confidence is greater than accuracy?

True or False: B.F. Skinner argued that children have a predisposition to learn language?

What type of behavior is beneficial for society?

What problem-solving strategy guarantees reaching the correct answer but is not efficient?

What states that behaviors with favorable consequences will occur more frequently vice versa?

What types of visual images encode the easiest?

What word refers to a consequence that will decrease the likelihood of a behavior in the future?

What type of mnemonic device associates items to be remembered with a list you've already memorized?

What is it called when we tend to focus on information that supports what we already believe?