Review Intro FINAL

When items are correctly organized in long-term memory, you are more likely to recall accurate information about them.

People have what kinds of needs?

Which of the following is a prototype for the category “weather”?

What do psychologists call mental representations of visual stimuli?

Novices are more likely than experts to use serial processing to solve problems.

As they relate to practising good driving habits, what do low car insurance rates serve as?

Per Robert Sternberg’s triarchic model of intelligence, what Aristotelian form of intelligence is similar to creativity?

What process entails the altering of sensory information so that it can be placed in memory?

What refers to the tendency to solve new problems with an approach that solved a similar problem in the past?

Reuben solves puzzles and problems with ease. Which method is Reuben likely to use in solving them?

How does one “save” information in the hopes that it will become a short-term memory?

A person is working on a puzzle they reorganize a group of letters to form words. What type of problem is this puzzle?

What are psychological needs based upon?

Why do we often have overconfidence in our judgments, even when they are wrong?

Alfred Binet developed the first modern intelligence-testing methods.

Which of the following does factor s relate to, according to Charles Spearman?

What type of memory tends to fail when one is feeling stressed, distracted, and preoccupied?

Flashbulb memories seem more vivid because they form strong networks of associations in the brain.

What factor of intelligence is associated with Charles Spearman’s symbol g?

In relation to the category “furniture,” what are a sofa, a bed, and a table?

Motives can take which of the following forms?

Which of the following best describes “thinking”?

An algorithm is usually time consuming. By comparison, what problem-solving technique can provide a more rapid solution?

What is the process by which information is encoded, stored & retrieved?

Regarding problem solving, which of the following is a potential disadvantage of functional fixedness?

What are the information processing stages?

What three stages of memory did Atkinson and Shiffrin propose?

A person uses a mental image to remember a grocery list. What format are they most likely using for this memory process?

Prototypes are often taught by use of examples, or exemplars

A student can remember only the conclusion of their speech. This is an example of which of the following?

An algorithm is a shortcut, or a rule of thumb, that helps simplify and solve a problem.

Which of the following is one of Howard Gardner’s “multiple intelligences”?

Which of the following leads to an “Of course!” experience?

What do we call mental activity involved in processing, understanding, and making decisions about information?

The capacity to create new sentences to communicate is called semanticity.

Due to the framing effect, the way in which information is presented may influence decision making.

What problem-solving technique most relates to the saying “jump to conclusions”?

We are unlikely to remember early childhood episodes unless we are periodically reminded of them

Which stage of memory is activated when we first encounter stimuli?

According to Robert Sternberg, what are the three types of intelligence?

What activity is a person engaged in when mentally reviewing a phone number after looking it up for the first time?

The concept of method of savings was developed by Ebbinghaus to study the efficiency of which of the following?

How quickly do memory traces of sounds decay?

What is another term for “photographic memory”?

In the field of intelligence testing, how are subtests grouped in the scales on the Wechsler intelligence test?