Unit 2 Cognition

What does Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve suggest about your memory of high school psychology?

Tests designed to assess what a person has learned are called

Hansel only knows one way to deal with conflict with his children: spanking. This is:

Which psychologist wrote the book Hereditary Genius?

Which theory states that the spinal cord has the ability to block pain signals to the brain?

Ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations

If John's test score is compared with that of a pretested sample of people, the test is 

When solving most of our day to day problems, we rely on:

Emotional intelligence is a critical component of

Sue walks from the kitchen to the bedroom, forgets what she needs until she returns to kitchen.

Why do you see the white triangle in the black dots and the panda from incomplete lines?

Brunhilda wants to do well on her chemistry exam. What do you recommend she do?

After seeing reports about people losing jobs, you start to believe that you might be laid-off.

A multiple choice tests rewards students who excel at:

Tells the brain about the position of the head and its movement

This is type of top-down processing with a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another.

Binet and Simon designed a test of intellectual abilities in order to identify children

Which is most likely to lead to remembering a list of words?

Girls scoring lower on tests of mathematical aptitude can be an illustration of a...

A multiple choice test uses which of the following?

An green apple looks brown to Sam in a dark room, but he still knows the apple is green. How?

The cocktail party effect where one may focus on a single voice among many exemplifies this.

These are use to assess mental aptitudes and compare them with those of others.

Mr. Stevens lacks self-insight to his inability to understand his feelings.  Mr. Stevens lacks

You fail to hear your mother tell you to take out the trash while watching TV, demonstrating...

Abe notices strong perfume odor in a room upon arrival, but not after five minutes. Why?

Penelope struggled understanding basic questions after her stroke. This is most likely:

Implicit memories are

If JoAnne consistently earns similar results each time she takes the ACT, the test has 

emotional, vivid memories are

What happens with sorting children into "gifted" programs that creates criticism?

One of the factors that can lessen the achievement gap between students above and below the poverity line is

Iconic memory (visual/sensory memory) lasts for:

Trichromatic Theory states that we have special receptors for which colors

This part of the brain that processes explicit memories.

 Adopted children's IQ scores are least likely to be + correlated with their adopted siblings

Given a list of twenty words, most people would remember ____the best. (serial position effect)

The teacher asked the students to come up with creative solutions to poverty. This is:

Granny can't remember what day it is or who the president is, but recalls her childhood clearly

I ask you to imagine an ordinary chair. The mental image that comes to you is:

Many current memory researchers believe that Freud's defense mechanism called repression...

What is the system for sensing position and movement of individual body parts?

The sense that tells you where the parts of your body are with respect to one another

Similarity between the intelligence test scores of identical twins raised apart is

Gifted programs can lead some children who are "ungifted" to perform worse. This is an example of

Which of the following is an example of inattentional blindness?

For the version of the Standford-Binet, IQ was defined as 

The Opponent-Process Theory uses three sets of colors to theorize what concept?

The stability of children's IQ test scores over time is most positively  correlated with their

Which four receptors does the human body have for touch sensation?

The after image of the American flag in this picture is explained by...

Robert Sternberg distinguished among analytical, practical, and _____________intelligence.

Seeing a seal and trainer in this sketch after being told it's for a marine show demonstrates..

A bell-shaped curve that characterizes a large sample of intelligence test scores is a 

What is an example of change blindness?

Carl completes a psychology test that measures only topics in psychology.  This test has 

The characteristics of savant syndrome have been used to support which theory of intelligence?

Wolfgang fell out of a truck, hit his head, and cannot remember anything prior to the accident.

What is the difference between monocular and binocular cues for vision?

Memorizing a T. S. Eliot poem for class is an example of what type of memory?

The Stanford-Binet, WAIS, and WISC tests are all types of

Wendy remembers visiting Disney when she was 3 but she really just heard this from her sister.

Which percent of scores fall between 70 and 130 in a normal bell curve?

IQ tests are most likely to be considered culturally biased in terms of their

Using HOMES to remember the Great Lakes is an example of:

Which psychologist disagreed with Spearman and identified 7 clusters of mental abilities?

Improvement in the past century in IQ test performance is known as

This part of the brain is important in remembering emotionally-charged events:

Which test provides separate verbal comprehensive, working memory, & overall intelligence?

Boys outperform girls in which skill?

This is the system of rules of a language that enables communication.

Amplitude is to loudness as frequency is to what?

A candle flame can be seen in the dark from up to 30 miles away. This is an example of a/an

Our implicit/automatic memory is very good at remembering space, time, and:

Why did Binet develop an intelligence test for the French government?

Lewis Terman's widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test was the

Emotional Intelligence has been criticized because it 

Asking a survey question in a specific way to get a desired response is an example of:

Sally supports gun control and seeks out stories that reaffirm limitations on gun ownership.

Tests designed to predict ability to learn new skills are called

This is a step by step, logical procedure that guarantees solving a problem:

Which messages are processed below one's absolute threshold for conscious awareness?

The phi phenomenon is the illusion of what?

What causes Down Syndrome?

Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory focuses on what colors stimulated at once to see any color?

If you are taking a test to measure your capacity to learn to be mechanic, the test would be 

A general intelligence that underlies successful performance on a wide variety of tasks is

After the accident, Jud spoke only nonsensical words and sentences. He most likely has:

Retinal Disparity refers to...

Implicit/muscle memory is processed in the

I have the eerie sense that I have taken this Quiz quiz in this exact room before.

This is analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to brain interpretation.

Studies suggest there is a positive correlation between intelligence and the brain's

I can't remember my old phone number because my new phone number keeps coming up in my head.

The answer to some problem suddenly comes to Maxine late at night. This is:

Five yr old Hector performs on an IQ test at a level of an average 4 yr old.  His mental age is

Short-term memory has a capacity of about___ items: