An aptitude test is to ______ as an achievement test is to _______.

potential; what has been learned

The Flynn effect refers to the

gradual improvement in iIQ test scores over the years

Which of the following best describes the representativeness heuristic?

Saying a new kid is a nerd because he looks like one.

What is an availability heuristic?

What is available in our memory to check new info against

Which of the following study strategies will best lead to memory consolidation for a test?

Studying 20 min each night for two weeks

Based on Terman's research, if a parent wants to have an intelligent child, they need to

find a highly intelligent spouse to be the other parent for their child

The use of heuristics rather than algorithms is MOST likely to

save time in arriving at solutions to problems

What does face validity look at?

Whether the test looks like it measures what it should

What is the Halo effect?

When a teacher labels a student as good and can do no bad

When it comes to memory creation, infants have

the ability to store only implicitly learned memories

What is the tip of tongue phenomenon?

failing to retrieve a word from memory

The temporal lobe of the brain contains the auditory cortex and is responsible for

processing declarative memories

If schemas are used incorrectly, what can they lead to?

False memories, stereotypes & perceptual errors

seeking evidence to support an idea, rather than refute it

Why would a bilingual child score well below the other students in their class who speak only 1 language in their homes?

Language proficiency is delayed in children from bilingual houses

Which of the following best describes holophrases?

whole sentences contained within one word

One weakness of using Alfred Binet's empirical mental age as a measure of intelligence is that

It does not work for people over age 18

What is encoding failure?

Details were never really stored to begin with.

What is a critical period?

the age a child will be most receptive to learn language

I believe in Gardner's theory of intelligence. Which activity am I most likely to assign?

Students can chose to write a song, perform a skit, or record a convo

Results in the loss of old memories

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1
If a eight-year old child has an !Q of 100, what is the child's mental age?
7
5
8
6
2
An aptitude test is to ______ as an achievement test is to _______.
a measurement of current skills; potential
potential; what has been learned
what has been learned; potential
profit from learning; potential
3
What are people labeled if their IQ land between 50 and 69?
Mild
Profound
Moderate
Severe
4
The Flynn effect refers to the
Superiority of certain racial groups on IQ test
gradual improvement in iIQ test scores over the years
Extrme scores that are more common for males on math tests
predictive ability of intelligence tests
5
The way issues are presented will affect the decision
Representative Heuristic
Belief Perseverance
Framing effect
Confirmation Bias
6
A logical, systematic procedure for solving a problem is known as
algorithim
a heuristic
an analogy
an action potential
7
Which of the following best describes the representativeness heuristic?
Having the solution to a word problem pop into your head
Checking your couch for money because couches have cash.
Fearing air travel because of memories of plane crashes.
Saying a new kid is a nerd because he looks like one.
8
What is an availability heuristic?
What is available in our society to check new info against
What is available in the media to check new info against
What is available in books to check new info against
What is available in our memory to check new info against
9
Which of the following study strategies will best lead to memory consolidation for a test?
Studying 20 min each night for two weeks
Studying only the night before for five hours
Not Studying
Read the entire textbook the day before the test
10
Which theorist coined the concept of general intelligence (g)?
Howard Gardner
Robert Sternberg
Charles Spearman
Alfred Binet
11
Based on Terman's research, if a parent wants to have an intelligent child, they need to
find a highly intelligent spouse to be the other parent for their child
play classical music to the fetus in utero
send children to the local public schools
feed her children superfoods and vitamins
12
The use of heuristics rather than algorithms is MOST likely to
avoid the issue of functional fixedness
yield more accurate solutions to problems
save time in arriving at solutions to problems
minimize the overconfidence phenomenon
13
What does face validity look at?
If the findings remain true over time
Whether the findings are similar to a well-established test
Whether the test looks like it measures what it should
If the findings generalize to other settings
14
As humans age, which of the following tends to increase?
Visual sharpness
Life satisfaction
Crystallized Intelligence
Fluid Intelligence
15
Two or more versions of a test that deliver similar results have what type of reliability?
Inter-rater reliability
Parallel forms
internal consistency reliability
inter-method reliability
16
Hermann Ebbinghaus developed which concept?
Memory curves
The forgetting curve
The curvey memory
The memory curve
17
What is the Halo effect?
When a teacher labels a student as bad and can do no good
When a teacher labels a student as good and can do no bad
When a student labels a teacher bad who can not teach
When a teacher labels a student bad and can do no bad
18
When it comes to memory creation, infants have
the ability to store only implicitly learned memories
the ability to store only explicitly learned memories
no cognitive abilities, therefore they have no memories
the ability to store both explicit and implicit memories
19
What percent of intelligence test scores fall within two standard deviations of the mean?
34%
95%
68%
99%
20
Which of the following explains how Amber can knit without paying attention to he rknitting?
Encoding Failure
Automatic Processing
Effortful Processing
Priming
21
What is the tip of tongue phenomenon?
having more than 1 answer at a time
failing to retrieve a word from memory
inability to form new memories
losing access to all past memory
22
The temporal lobe of the brain contains the auditory cortex and is responsible for
thinking and decision making
production of speech
processing declarative memories
processing the sense of touch
23
If schemas are used incorrectly, what can they lead to?
False memories, stereotypes & perceptual errors
Confusion, false memories & stereotypes
Biases & inferences
Organisation, stereotypes & bias
24
The idea that the wording of a ? about an event can affect how one recalls that event is best supported the research of
George Miller
Elizabeth Loftus
Herman Ebbinghaus
Noam Chomsky
25
Confirmation bias
fast, automatic, unreasoned feelings and thoughts
the inability to look from another perspective, in order to maintain belief
seeking evidence to support an idea, rather than refute it
tendency to approach a problem with a method that worked previously
26
Why would a bilingual child score well below the other students in their class who speak only 1 language in their homes?
Student has speech impairment
Language proficiency is delayed in children from bilingual houses
Student has ADD
Student ha sintellectual disabaility
27
Which of the following best describes holophrases?
only speaking the main meaning-carrying words
only speaking consonant sounds
only speaking vowel sounds
whole sentences contained within one word
28
One weakness of using Alfred Binet's empirical mental age as a measure of intelligence is that
It is an achievement test and does not measure intelligence
the test is not reliable
it is based on data from 1905
It does not work for people over age 18
29
What is encoding failure?
Details were never really stored to begin with.
Other thoughts crowd out the forgotten information.
The details were never transferred to long term memory.
When we are to lazy to rehearse the information.
30
The suffixes -ed and -ing are examples of
syntax
telegraphic speech
morphemes
phonemes
31
Which theorist would be MOST likely to argue intelligence is a single, innate quality?
Howard Gardner
Robert Sternberg
Carol Dweck
Lewis Terman
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What is a critical period?
the age where children stop learning language
the age where children start learning language
the age where a child is most vulnerable to illness
the age a child will be most receptive to learn language
33
I believe in Gardner's theory of intelligence. Which activity am I most likely to assign?
Students have to calculate the price pf an item on their holiday wishlist
- and + decimals using prices of different items at a grocery store
Students are assigned 10 math problems and have access to answer key
Students can chose to write a song, perform a skit, or record a convo
34
Retrograde amnesia
Results in the loss of old memories
Results in the inability to form new memories
Doesn't result in anything
Results in loss of new and old memories
35
11-month-olds saying things like "go", "bye" and "up" are in what language development stage?
Two-Word
Telegraphic
One-Word
Overgeneralization

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