Cognition & Intelligence

It is likely that Asian students outperform North American students on math tests because...

Extreme evidence of the effects of infant neglect on subsequent development can be seen in:

"Analytical, creative & practical intelligences" are a feature of which theory?

The serial position effect best illustrates the importance of...

A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test:

Which type of memory has an essentially unlimited capacity?

People are more likely to trust cars than airplanes due to

Police interrogators have been trained to ask less suggestive questions to avoid...

Retroactive interference involves the disruption of...

To prevent encoding failure you should...

IQ stands for

"Human abilities are too diverse to be encapsulated by a single intelligence factor" criticizes

A condition in which a person limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill:

"Street smarts" is more technically known as

The inability to take a new perspective on a problem is called...

Judging the likelihood of an event based on how readily we remember instances of it happening

A mnemonic device is a

Christmas is to holiday as ________ is to ________.

Condition of intellectual disability & associated physical disorders caused by extra chromosome

You are most likely to automatically encode information about...

People automatically enrolled to be an organ donor is more likely to stay an organ donor due to

Condition of limited mental ability; IQ of 70 or below; difficulty adapting to demands of life:

One criticism of the WAIS is:

This type of intelligence can be demonstrated in reacting to new situations & generating ideas:

The most widely used intelligence tests; contains verbal & nonverbal performance subtests.

"Required for everyday tasks, which may be ill-defined, with multiple solutions":

The original IQ test was developed...

Tests designed to assess what a person has learned.

The organization of information into meaningful units is called...

The process of encoding refers to...

Chronological age most typically corresponding with results on Binet's IQ test:

The most genetically similar people have the most similar intelligence scores.

Intelligence tests can contain bias based on a group's education & life/cultural experiences.

Widely used American version (by Terman at Stanford) of Binet's original intelligence test:

Ability to perceive, understand, manage & use emotions:

You are more likely to remember the items at the beginning and the end of a list because of...

Black students have scored higher on intelligence tests when tested by Black people.

Immediate short-term memory for new material is limited to roughly _______ bits of information.

Genetically,individual differences WITHIN a race are much great than differences BETWEEN races.

Who argued that humans have multiple intelligences?

The ability to learn from experience and use knowledge to adapt to new situations:

The ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions:

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

Underlies specific mental abilities and is measured by every task on an intelligence test:

Learning over time through the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information is known as

The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information is called...

Words, events, places, and emotions that trigger our memory of the past are called...

How many intelligences does Gardner's theory suggest we have?

Explicit memory is to long-term memory as iconic memory is to ________ memory.

The process of retrieval refers to...

Which is a criticism of Gardner's 8 multiple intelligences?

A best example of a category of objects, events, or people is called a(n)...

Rephrasing text material in your own words is an effective way of facilitating...

An algorithm is a...

Distributed study yielding better long-term retention than massed study is known as...

The process of retaining encoded information over time.

Simple thinking strategies that allow us to solve problems and make judgments efficiently...

The tendency to search for information consistent with our preconceptions is called...

Tests designed to predict a person's future performance/capacity to learn.

Research has found that an individual's expectations about test performance impacts performance

All of the following are examples of Gardner's multiple intelligences except:

A method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with others:

The "self-fulfilling prophecy" and "stereotype threat" are examples of:

Storage is to encoding as ________ is to ________.

Basic intelligence that predicts our abilities in varied academic areas: