Unit 5 Quizziz

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96% of people fall within 30 points of what IQ score?

100

The Multi-store or Modal Model of memory proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin has how many stages?

3

Which definition best describes the term 'Schema'?

A mental representation that influences our knowledge, beliefs and expectations.

Forgetting caused by lapses in attention

Absent-mindedness

This persons was the first to investigate intelligence to determine a person's mental age

Alfred Binet

These tests attempt to predict the test takers future performance.

Aptitude

Which language theorist would have been most likely to emphasize that children master the rule for forming the past tense of regular verbs like "push" before they learn common past tense constructions of irregular verbs like "go"?

Chomsky

Organizing pieces of info into smaller units.

Chunking

In the Bransford and Johnson (1972) schema study, which condition had the highest number of ideas correctly recalled?

Context before

The idea that intelligence is more than logical thinking but also includes important skills such as verbal abilities and musical talent causes critics to think which of the following...

Critics suggest these "intelligence" are really just talent and skills

The ability to perceive, express, understand, and regulate emotions.

Emotional Intelligence

The process of filing information into your memory is...

Encoding

Memory of something that WAS deliberately learned.

Explicit memory

The Two Factory Theory of Intelligence states intelligence is measured by which two factors...

General intelligence (problem solving) and specific abilities (verbal and math skills)

A rule of thumb

Heuristic

Which of the following statements best describes Albert Bandura's concept of self-efficacy?

I can do whatever I set my mind to do

An image that is flashed before us for only a fraction of a second is captured by our

Iconic memory

A memory of something that was NOT deliberately learned.

Implicit memory

When conclusions are drawn based on the information available, this is an...

Inference

Which of the following points is NOT a valid criticism of the multi-store model?

It isn't supported by any scientific evidence.

Which of the following psychologists suggested there were 7 primary mental abilities all people should be measured by?

LL Thurston

Has unlimited storage capacity

Long-term memory

Information that is reviewed to keep it from fading.

Maintenance Rehearsal

Any system that encodes, stores and retrieves information

Memory

Techniques used to improve memory.

Mnemonic

Which of the following is one of Gardner's types of Intelligences?

Musical

Which of the following statements does not belong to System 2 of the Dual Process Model of thinking and decision making?

Not logic based and prone to error

Which of the following is TRUE?

People are overconfident about how they will perform on various tasks.

Noam Chomsky's theory of language acquisition holds that people have an inborn universal grammar that makes learning of language easy for children. Which of the following statements is used as support for this theory?

Regardless of the language learned, children tend to make similar errors of grammar when they first begin to learn language.

What action is necessary to transfer information from the short-term memory to the long-term memory?

Rehearsal

Which of the following is NOT one of the 3 memory tasks?

Rehearsal

Location and recovery of info from memory

Retrieval

A knowledge cluster

Schema

A knowledge cluster about sequences of events.

Script

Preserves brief sensory impression for only a fraction of a second.

Sensory Memory

Which of the following components is the odd one out?

Sensory Store

Retention of encoded material over time.

Storage

Validity is...

The ability to measure what the test was intended to measure

Which of the following is true?

There is NOT a definite definition of intelligence.

Which of the following statements is a genuine strength of the dual process model of thinking and decision making?

There is biological evidence

Which of the following critiques the idea that intelligence is the ability to think logically?

Thinking logically omits important skills such as body-kinesthetic abilities and spatial abilities

Sternberg proposed which of the following theories?

Triarchic Theory

Charles Spearman created the Two Factor Theory of Intelligence.

True

Howard Gardner believe intelligence is more than the ability to think critically.

True

Of the following, which test is the most widely used intelligence test today?

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

Baddeley, Thompson and Buchannan (1975) demonstrated which effect to support the working memory model?

Word Length Effect

Preserves recently perceived events or experiences for less than a minute w/o rehearsal.

Working memory

A chess-playing computer program that routinely calculates all possible outcomes of all possible game moves best illustrates problem solving by means of

an algorithm.

To find Tabasco sauce in a large grocery store, you could systematically search every shelf in every store aisle. This best illustrates problem solving by means of:

an algorithm.

Maintaining one's conceptions even after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited is known as:

belief perseverance.

Problem solving is one type of cognitive activity in which we all engage. Which of the following cognitive tendencies is seen to be an obstacle to problem solving?

confirmation bias

Studying for a test in the same room in which it will be held may result in a better grade because of

context-dependent memory

Computers and people both handle information using the process of

encoding, storage, and retrieval.

Memory in which people recall events in great detail is called

flashbulb memory

Advertisers know that a thirty-three percent discount sounds like a better deal than a discount of one third. This best illustrates:

framing

Pablo vainly searches for a screwdriver while failing to recognize that a readily available coin in his pocket would turn the screw. His oversight best illustrates:

functional fixedness.

A typical one-year-old child:

has lost the ability to discriminate phoneme sounds outside her native language.

Using different words for two very similar objects enables people to recognize conceptual distinctions between the objects. This illustrates:

linguistic determinism

If you are having trouble learning new information because old information is getting in the way, we call this concept ________ interference

proactive

Researchers assess the correlation between scores obtained on two halves of a single test in order to measure the _______ of a test.

reliability

What is the memory process that locates stored information and returns it to consciousness?

retrieval

General knowledge that is not tied to the time when the information was learned is contained in ____________________ memory.

semantic

What are the three stages of memory in order?

sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory

The average person can hold in short-term memory a list of

seven items

When a person's test performance can be compared with that of a representative and pretested sample of people, the test is said to be

standardized

In English, it is appropriate to refer to "a pretty bird," but not to "a bird pretty." This best illustrates the importance of:

syntax.

Which of the following is NOT included as part of today's general definition of intelligence?

the ability to understand people and emotions

Those who score above average on tests of mathematical aptitude are also likely to score above average on tests of verbal aptitude. According to Spearman, this best illustrates the importance of:

the g factor

A defense attorney emphasizes to a jury that her client works full-time, supports his family, and enjoys leisure-time hobbies. Although none of this information is relevant to the trial, it is designed to make the defendant appear to be a typical member of the local community. The lawyer is most clearly attempting to take advantage

the representativeness heuristic.

Psychological tests must have two characteristics and they are:

validity and reliability


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