Psych Unit 4 Review

What is the process of getting information into the memory?

When old information gets in the way of new information.

Conscious, activated memory which holds information briefly before it is stored.

What do we call a test that assesses the future capacity for learning?

Mental groupings of similar objects, events, ideas, and people.

Which of the following does Sternberg include as a type of intelligence

Memory of skills and procedures that are retrieved without conscious recollection

Recalling information at the beginning of a list

Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort

Standardization includes formalizing testing procedures and establishing

When new information disrupts the recall of old information.

Sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem.

The term "g-factor," written about by Spearman, refers to

If Jane's intelligence quotient is 100, we know that she has a

What is true of a thermometer that is always 3 degrees off?

If you answer odd-numbered questions on a test and later only the even-numbered questions.

The ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions is called

The average twelve-year-old child has a mental age equal to

Thinking strategies that allow us to make judgements and solve problems quickly.

The correlation of intelligence test scores of identical twins are

Who designed of the first useful individual test of intelligence?

It can be argued that standardized testing (such as the SAT) is beneficial because

The distribution of IQ scores

Pam has a low IQ but is able to tell you the exact day of the week of September 13, 1957. She's

Step by step procedures that guarantee a solution.

Attributing to the wrong source, an event we have heard about, read about or imagined.

estimating the likelihood of events based on their readily they come to mind

Fraternal twins are more similar in IQ than ordinary siblings suggests the importance of

Incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event causing them to remember.

Memory tricks or techniques

Memory of facts and experiences that one must consciously retrieve

Permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system.

Billy has a mental age of 8 and a chronological age of 10. Billy's IQ is

Curve that shows that forgetting occurs rapidly and then levels off.

Which of the following is an approach to measuring reliability?

What do we call Gardner's theory for intelligence?

judging the likelihood of an event in terms of how well it seems to match a prototype.

Short, initial encoding of information into the memory system

Identifying items learned earlier from a list

Students that do well on college enterence exams generally do well in college. This means

Encoding of meaning.

If a test indicates that you could excel in teaching English as a second language, its is a

The tendency for distributed practice to yield better retention than mass practice..

IQ may be defined as

Unconscious encoding of information

Measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier.