Combined: Chapter 8 Review: Memory + Chapter 7 Review: Thinking & Intelligence

Question 1

Memories we consciously try to remember and recall

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explicit

Question 2

Marshawn prioritizes sleep to help him transfer new learning into long-term memory

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consolidation

Question 3

Inability to see an object as useful for any other use other than the one for which it was intended

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functional fixedness

Question 4

Zola can't seem to remember that Pluto is no longer a planet

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proactive interference

Question 5

Method of testing in which administration, scoring, and interpretation of results are consistent

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standardization

Question 6

Faulty heuristic in which you stereotype someone or something without a valid basis for your judgement

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representative bias

Question 7

Field of psychology dedicated to studying every aspect of how people think

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cognitive psychology

Question 8

Luther is able to learn how to use new equipment at work due to his

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fluid intelligence

Question 9

Input of information into the memory system

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encoding

Question 10

Gordon can play the Star Wars soundtrack on his piano by memory. He has encoded the music:

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acoustically

Question 11

Lucy cannot form new memories after her accident

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anterograde amnesia

Question 12

Josslyn's zipper on her backpack breaks. She uses a paperclip to fix it.

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divergent thinking

Question 13

Finn has empathy, self awareness, and strong social skills

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emotional intelligence

Question 14

Noam Chomsky's name for a prewired mechanism in the brain that allows children to acquire language naturally

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language acquisition device

Question 15

A type of long-term memory of facts and events we personally experience

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declarative

Question 16

Charles can still perform the dance from his high school talent show thanks to his

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procedural memory

Question 17

Concept that is defined by a very specific set of characteristics; easy to describe

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artificial

Question 18

Milo has an average IQ score. What is his IQ?

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100

Question 19

Karl Lashley's physical trace of memory

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engram

Question 20

Your memory of graduating high school is a(n)

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episodic memory

Question 21

Act of getting information out of long-term memory storage and back into conscious awareness

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retrieval

Question 22

Which of the following is not one of the three basic functions of memory?

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blocking

Question 23

Accuracy of a given result in measuring what it is designed to measure

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validity

Question 24

Which of the following is not part of Sternberg's Triarchic theory of intelligence?

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emotional intelligence

Question 25

Memories that are not part of our consciousness

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implicit

Question 26

Information learned more recently hinders the recall of older information

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retroactive interference

Question 27

Mental shortcut that saves time when solving a problem; faster decisions but no guaranteed solutions

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heuristic

Question 28

Vivian takes a personality quiz three times and gets the same result every time. The quiz is

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reliable

Question 29

Input of words and their meaning

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semantic encoding

Question 30

Characterized by acquired knowledge and the ability to retrieve it

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crystallized intelligence

Question 31

Jerry looks for information that supports his beliefs and ignores any information that contradicts them

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confirmation bias

Question 32

Scully can't seem to remember his new coworker's name. It is on the tip of his tongue.

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blocking

Question 33

Spearman's "g" is a measure of

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general intelligence

Question 34

Mr. Monk gets a head injury and cannot remember who he is

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retrograde amnesia

Question 35

Rosa repeats Amy's phone number in her head until she can enter it into her phone

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rehearsal

Question 36

After exposure to additional and possibly inaccurate information, a person may misremember the original event

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misinformation effect paradigm

Question 37

The basic units of sound in a language

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phonemes

Question 38

Continually using an old solution to a problem without results

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mental set

Question 39

Can hold about 7 bits of information for ~30 seconds

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short-term memory

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Problem-solving strategy characterized by a specific set of instructions

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algorithm

Combined: Chapter 8 Review: Memory + Chapter 7 Review: Thinking & Intelligence

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Combined: Chapter 8 Review: Memory + Chapter 7 Review: Thinking & Intelligence

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