Psych 1 Unit 3 Review

Question 1

What is the most reliable approach to solving a problem?

Accepted Answer

algorithm

Question 2

What is the relationship between intelligence and achievement?

Accepted Answer

Intelligence forms the basis for achievement.

Question 3

What factors are part of normal forgetting?

Accepted Answer

interference and decay

Question 4

What is the process by which a stimulus increases the chances of a preceding behavior occurring again?

Accepted Answer

reinforcement

Question 5

What score is achieved by about half of the people who take the Wechsler scales?

Accepted Answer

between 90 and 110

Question 6

Which of the following best describes emotional intelligence?

Accepted Answer

recognize & manage feelings, motivate & control oneself, get along w/others

Question 7

When people tend to think of an object as being useful only in the way that it is typically used, they are displaying?

Accepted Answer

functional fixedness

Question 8

What do the Wechsler scales subtests measure?

Accepted Answer

verbal and performance skills

Question 9

Which of the following is a term for learning that remains hidden until needed?

Accepted Answer

latent learning

Question 10

Which of the following choices describes “mental set”?

Accepted Answer

trying an approach that was successfully used with a similar problem

Question 11

Which option below describes “availability heuristic”?

Accepted Answer

making decisions on the basis of information in the immediate consciousness

Question 12

What does a language acquisition device do?

Accepted Answer

enables our brains to understand and use grammar

Question 13

Which of the following would be considered a secondary reinforcer?

Accepted Answer

money

Question 14

Most adoptee studies show that the IQs of adopted children are more like those of their

Accepted Answer

biological parents.

Question 15

Which of the following is an example of negative reinforcement?

Accepted Answer

Someone who becomes too warm in the sun moves into the shade.

Question 16

Which of the following describes the process by which a conditioned response is extinguished?

Accepted Answer

A conditioned stimulus is no longer followed by an unconditioned stimulus.

Question 17

Kinship studies have shown which of the following groups to have the most similar IQ scores?

Accepted Answer

identical twins

Question 18

What are the three basic memory tasks?

Accepted Answer

recognition, recall, and relearning

Question 19

This helps people and animals adapt to their environment by responding similarly to different stimuli?

Accepted Answer

generalization

Question 20

When people make decisions based on certain ideas or standards that they believe in, they are using....

Accepted Answer

anchoring heuristic

Question 21

On what kind of reinforcement schedule does a slot machine work?

Accepted Answer

variable-ratio schedule

Question 22

Which of the following are included in Robert Sternberg's model of intelligence?

Accepted Answer

analytical, creative, and practical abilities

Question 23

We can more easily remember bits of information by organizing them into mental representations of the world called

Accepted Answer

schemas.

Question 24

Which of the following best describes when a variable-interval schedule provides reinforcement?

Accepted Answer

at an unpredictable time

Question 25

Which of the following best describes chunking?

Accepted Answer

organizing items into familiar or manageable units

Question 26

Ivan Pavlov’s experiments with dogs yielded information about which of the following?

Accepted Answer

classical conditioning

Question 27

Which of the following is an example of episodic memory?

Accepted Answer

pain of a broken leg

Question 28

What is the first stage of information storage?

Accepted Answer

sensory memory

Question 29

State-dependent memories are retrieved when

Accepted Answer

a person is in a particular mood.

Question 30

Which problem-solving method is faster than an algorithm but is also less reliable?

Accepted Answer

heuristic

Question 31

What are phonemes?

Accepted Answer

basic sounds of a language

Question 32

How do people organize concepts?

Accepted Answer

into hierarchies

Question 33

What is a concept?

Accepted Answer

group of objects, events, or ideas with similar characteristics

Question 34

What can cause mental retardation?

Accepted Answer

all of these are correct

Question 35

According to Howard Gardner, which of the following is true?

Accepted Answer

People have multiple, independent intelligences.

Question 36

Facts learned in classes at school become part of what type of memory?

Accepted Answer

semantic

Question 37

Mental picture is another term for which of the following?

Accepted Answer

cognitive map

Question 38

What best describes long-term memory?

Accepted Answer

final stage of information storage

Question 39

A memory of kindergarten that returns when you are back in your kindergarten classroom is what type of memory?

Accepted Answer

context-dependent

Question 40

If you divide mental age by chronological age and multiply the result by 100, what is the result?

Accepted Answer

intelligence quotient

Psych 1 Unit 3 Review

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Psych 1 Unit 3 Review

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