Psyc chapter 7-8 practice

Coleman has an IQ of 130 and tends to do very well in school. This suggests that which of the following is true about IQ tests as measures of intelligence?

IQ tests are valid.

Remembering how to ice skate is most likely an example of _______ memory

Procedural

Ira is a trivia buff. He challenges his friends all the time and never fails to impress him with his ability to remember interesting facts what memory is Ira drawing on for his information

Semantic memory

Liora is reading her textbook. As her eyes scan the page, each visual image is retained for less than a second in her

sensory storage

Vikranth takes pride in being able to memorize long strings of letters very quickly. His trick is to see each group of letters as the initials of people he knows. That way, instead of remembering 20 letters, he only has to remember a group of seven friends. What is the name for Vikranth's technique?

Chunking

According to the notion of general intelligence is Cici is very good at math how would you expect her to do in other subjects such as writing

She will perform relatively as well in writing as she does in math

Demetrius, a 10-year-old, is taking the original Stanford-Binet intelligence test. If he consistently answers questions correctly at the level of a 12-year-old, then according to Wilhelm Stern's original scoring method, Demetrius's intelligence quotient is

120

norm-referred tests

Compare individual student scores to the average score of all students at their age level

After Suzi's purse got stolen, the police asked her to look at mug shots to try to identify the perpetrator. After looking at several images, Suzi felt that they became blurred together in her mind-she no longer felt confident that she would be able to identify the man who stole her purse. In fact, she could no longer recall whether he had a moustache or not. The suggestibility of memory raises serious questions about using __________ for courtroom evidence.

Eyewitness testimony

Charles spearman viewed intelligence as having one underlying factor, which he called which kind of intelligence?

General

Which Of the following is an example of episodic memory

Girl remembers going to be a professional baseball game with her parents on a warm summer day and catching a foul ball

While studying for her final exam in an anatomy and physiology class, Fabienne tries to create a sentence where the first letter of each key term represents an important concept that she will need to know. Fabienne is using the retrieval cue of ______ to help her remember the key terms

Mnemonics

When Annaliese takes a job qualification exam to work in a science lab, she becomes aware that she is the ONLY woman in a room of 20 people who are taking the exam. She becomes anxious about women being regarded as less capable in sciences, and then she does not do as well on the test as she otherwise might have. In this situation it is most likely that Annaliese has been impacted by

Stereotype threat

Keisha had a memorable night at a close friend's wedding. Between the beautiful scenery, the touching vows, and the dancing, this wedding was epic. While the memories have already been encoded, these two phases of memory will allow Keisha to remember and talk about this night for years to come.

Storage and retrival

Damian noticed that a suspicious car had been circling his neighborhood, so the next time it drove past, he looked at the license plate number. Which type of memory allowed him to repeat the number to himself long enough to find a pen and paper and write it down?

Working memory

Lewis completes a test that assesses his current skills and knowledge. Alice completes a test that assesses her ability to learn in the future. In these examples, Lewis has probably completed an __________ test and Alice has completed an __________ test.

achievement; aptitude