Ap Pysch Learning

In order to be classified as gifted, a person must have an intelligence score above:

130

The English language contains approximately-- phonemes.

44

In a normal distribution, which of the following statements is true about the area that falls between one standard deviation above and one standard deviation below the mean?

68%

A person labeled as intellectually disabled if his IQ is lower than

70

A 12-year old responded to the original Stanford-Binet with the proficiency typical of an average 9 year old was said to have an IQ of:

75

A test has a mean of 80 with a standard deviation of 4. Which of the following scores is within one standard deviation of the mean?

77

Kathy is learning how to cook. She follows every direction on each recipe step by step to make sure her food tastes good. Which of the following describes the problem-solving approach that Kathy is using?

Algorithim

Which of the following scenarios demonstrates the role of context effects in memory?

Amy studied for a vocabulary test in the same classroom and at the same time of day as the normal class, and she performed better on the test than students who studied in different classrooms under different conditions.

After having a stroke resulting from a blockage of blood to the hippocampus, Gerald could not remember information, such as the books he had just read, new songs he had just heard, or the faces of new people he had just met. Gerald was experiencing

Anterograde amnesia

If Juan tried to learn a long list of words, he would be most likely to forget words that

Appeared in the middle of the list

The idea that children learn language because they are reinforced by praise for learning to speak exemplifies the ideas of

BF Skinner

Which of the following is an example of a prelinguistic event?

Babbling

Mikayla, a high school student strongly opposed to video game use, is researching the topic for a speech she will deliver to her English class. Rather than searching for "the effects of video games," Mikayla searches for "the dangers of video games" and finds hundreds of Websites with information she can use to argue her position. Her behavior is an example of

Confirmation Bias

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

Dr. Rudolph's class has a big test coming up next week. Which of the following students is using a studying strategy that is most likely to lead to memory consolidation?

Elizabeth studies for a half an hour before she goes to bed each night of the week before the exam.

Although Maria scored well above average on the SAT, she frequently loses her temper and needlessly antagonizes her best friends. Her behavior best illustrates an inadequate level of:

Emotional Intelligence

All of the following are possible explanations of the Flynn Effect except:

Emotional intelligence

A teenager would most probably draw on which of the following to recall her tenth birthday party?

Episodic Memory

A researcher shows the same video of an automobile accident to two different groups of participants. Participants in group one are asked. Did you see a broken headlight? Participants in group 2 are asked. Did you see the broken headlight? The researcher finds that participants in group two are much more likely to recall having seen a broken headlight, even though there actually was no broken headlight in the video. The researcher is investigating the effects of which of the following on recall?

Framing

The proposal that abilities are best classified into 8 independent categories which include a broad range of skills is:

Gardner's Multiple Intelligences

A 40-year old man and his 7-year old son move to a country where they have to learn a new language. Compared with his son, the 40-year old man will

Have more difficulty learning to produce phonemes that do not exist in his native language.

Which area of the brain is not well developed until after three years of age, offering a possible explanation for infantile amnesia?

Hippocampus

Explicit memory is to------- while implicit memory is to ------

Hippocampus;cerebellum

Hillary glances at a graph and then turns her head away less than a second later. When she tries to immediately remember what she saw, which of the following types of memory does Hillary use?

Iconic

A basic assumption underlying short term memory is that it is?

Limited in capacity

In legal cases, Elizabeth Loftus' research on the misinformation effect is most often used to cast doubt on which of the following?

Memory of eye witness

Current intelligence tests compute an individual's intelligence score as:

Mental age divided by chronological age

A word of a part of a word that is in itself meaningful, but that cannot be broken into smaller meaningful units is called a

Morpheme

Two-year-old Jia tells her grandmother that she "sweeped" the floor yesterday. The scenario illustrates that children

Overgeneralize the use of grammatical rules

All human languages have several basic sounds in common called

Phonemes

In elementary school, Lisa learned to speak some Japanese in addition to English. As a sophomore in high school, Lisa took a class in Chinese. She found that some of the new vocabulary was difficult to learn because her earlier Japanese vocabulary was competing with the new Chinese words. This situation best illustrates

Proactive interference

A sudden inability to remember how to tie a certain kind of knot indicates a deficit in which kind of memory?

Procedural

Henry took an intelligence test and scored lower than he thought he should. He kept retaking the test, but he kept getting about the same score each time. This series of events indicates that the test was

Reliable

When asked which month has the most snow days, most students respond january because that is perceived as the coldest winter month. This is an illustration of

Representative heuristic

Gary, a young man, lived in a war zone as a child. However, he is unable to recall most of the details and events from that time. According to Freud, this is due to:

Repression

The rock star was hit by an egg while performing a hit song. The idea that a person is able to identify the different meanings of hit in the previous sentence demonstrates:

Semantics

---- said that intelligence was made up of three areas: analytic, practical, and creative intelligence that come together to meet daily demands.

Sternberg

Which of the following represent, respectively, superordinate and subordinate categories for the basic-level category of automobile?

Vehicle, Convertible

The most widely used intelligence test which includes verbal and nonverbal subtests is:

Wechsler Scales

According to research by Fergus I.M. Craik and Endel Tulving on levels of processing, which of the following would most improve the ability to recall the word umbrella?

Writing the word umbrella

Spearman's g factor refers to

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

Several years ago, a question about polo was removed from the SAT because a significant number of inner city students scored poorly on this question compared to their peers. This questions was removed because of:

bias

Twenty-five year old Sylvia is intellectually disabled and can neither read nor write. However, after hearing lengthy, unfamiliar, and complex musical selections just once, she can reproduce them precisely on the piano. It is likely that Sylvia is:

experiencing from savant syndrome

Hermann Ebbinghaus tested his memory using combinations of three letter nonsense syllables. Which of the following graphs best represents his findings about the relationships between forgetting and time?

goes down and to the right

long-term potentiation refers to

the increased efficiency of synaptic transmission between certain neurons following learning

Noam Chomsky's view of language proposes that

there is an inherent language acquisition device