Chapter 11, 12, 19

According to Benjamin Whorf's linguistic relativity hypothesis, which of the following is true?

Different languages predispose those individuals who speak them to think about the world in different ways.

rats given a drug that enhances long-term potentiation (LTP) will learn a maze with half the usual number of mistakes. this suggests that

LTP provides a neural basis for learning and remembering associations

students often remember more information from a course that spans an entire semester than from a course that is completed in an intensive three-week learning period. this best illustrates the importance of

distributed practice

Austin cant remember jack smith's name because he wasn't paying attention when jack was formally introduced. Austin's poor memory can best be explained in terms of...

encoding failure

When Paula takes her AP Psychology exam, the proctor reads from a set of instructions, which all students are told to follow precisely. Her friend taking the same exam at the same time in a different location was given the same instructions. Which of the following is best described in the scenario?

standardization

which of the following best describes explicit memories

the result of effortful processing

Which statement best describes the research consensus on intelligence scores of males and females?

Differences in overall intelligence are explained by the stereotype threat

While reading a novel at a rate of nearly 500 words per minute, Megan effortlessly understands almost every word. This ability highlights the importance of ________.

Automatic processing

Marie has just celebrated her ninety-second birthday. She lives on her own and still drives short distances, but she is starting to forget where she leaves her glasses and cannot figure out how to work her new security system. Based on this info only, which of the following may be declining?

Fluid intelligence

Group 1 asked to write down the names of the seven deadly sins. Group 2 is asked to look at a list of possible names of the sins and circle the correct seven. Why might group 2 be more likely to recall the sins?

Group 2 list provides more retrieval cues, making this recognition task easier for them than the recall task assigned to group 1

Two-year old Mica tells her grandmother that the new couch "costed" too much. The scenario illustrates that children...

Overgeneralize the use of grammatical rules

The Vietnamese language has the sound that goes with the letters NG at the beginning of words, including names. Americans have difficulty hearing and speaking that sound. That sound is a kind of...

Phoneme

Rachel is taking the ACT for the third time in the hopes of improving her score by five points so that she can attend the school of her choice. When she receives her test result, she finds she has received exactly the same score as the first two times she took the ACT. Which of the following best explains Rachel's score?

Test-retest validity

Iconic memory is the _____ as echoic memory is to _____:

Visual stimulation; auditory stimulation

Which of the following was credited with creating the IQ formula

William Stern

when confronted with the sequence "______N______" at the end of a word in a crossword puzzle, Tony inserts the letters "I" and "G" in the two blanks because that procedure has often led to the correct answer in previous puzzles. this example illustrates the use of...

an algorithim

A teenager believes very strongly that a particular basketball player should not play on his favorite team. Over the course of the season, the teenager focuses on every mistake, turnover ,and missed shot the player makes. However, the teen does not notice how well the player passes, helps the other teammates, and rebounds. This teenager's behavior illustrates which of the following?

confirmation bias - focussing on what matters for their point

walking into your bedroom, you think, "I need to get my backpack in the kitchen". when you reach the kitchen, you forget what you came there for. as you return to your bedroom, you suddenly remember, "Backpack!" this sudden recall is best explained by...

context dépendant memory

Unlike implicit memories, explicit memories are processed by the

hippocampus

Noam Chomsky's view of language proposes that

people have an inherent language acquisition device

when Loftus and Palmer asked observers of a filmed car accident how fast the vehicles were going when they "smashed" into one another rather than "hit" or "contacted" on another, the observers developed memories of the accident that...

portrayed the event as more serious than it actually had been