psych

he number of facts the participants remember during the test phase.

A group of researchers are investigating how different studying strategies impact how much participants remember on a test

vision

Damage to the occupital lobe would most likely affect a persons

IQ tests are dependent on social factors such as education and poverty

Intelligence tests have been used throughout history to purposefully discrimnate against groups of people

is very sensitive to hot peppers (D)

It can be assumed that an individual described as a supertaster

Cerebellum

Karolina is a ballerina who does not get dizzy when she performs spins. Which part of her brain receives messages from the hair like receptors that are involved in the vestibular sense

Which of the following monocular depth cues is most represented in the image

Linear perspective

absolute threshold

The intensity at which a sound becomes audible for a given individual is known as

Frequency

The perceived pitch of a tone is largely determined by its

semantic encoding

To help himself remember the name of his new colluege Hope, Jose thinks about the meaning of her name

the researchers are disrupting sleep for an extended period which may cause harm

A researcher wants to examine how much info from waking life ends up in dreams. The researcher recruits 40 volunteers from a local community college

maintenance rehearsal

A teacher asks Yvonne to go to another classroom to get a student whom Yvonne has never met. As she walks, she repeats the student's name to herself over and over to help her remember. Yvonne is boosting her memory by using which of the following memory concepts

How fast were the cars going when they smashed into each other?

After Doug witnessed two cars involved in an accident, a police officer asked Doug how fast the cars were going when the accident happened. According to research by Elizabeth Loftus, which of the following questions could the police officer ask that would make Doug most susceptible to the misinformation effect?

Perceptual set

After his friend said a new movie was the funniest he had seen in years, Willard found himself laughing throughout the movie the viewing, even though it was not very funny. What concept?

overconfidence

Amirah attended a concert for her favorite band. As the band played her favorite song, she sang along and repeated one of the lyrics incorrectly

We should not know Clives identity, especially while he is still living

Clive Wearing is an individual in a well-known case study examining anterograde amnesia. Clive had a high fever which led to damage to the hippocampus

convenience sample

Dr. Messina conducts experiments that explore the rate at which people forget info. To conduct her research, she used students who are taking psych

Elizabeth studies for half an hour before she goes to bed each night

Dr. Rudoplhs'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

hindsight bias

Fatima tries out for the debate team at her school because she believes that debate team members are the smartest kids in school

experiment

In a research study on the multi store method of memory, one group of randomly assigned high school students were given 5 minutes to rehearse details about a stimulus

closure

In a study on visual perception, participants were presented with the figure depicted and asked to describe what they saw

The method used to learn the concepts

In an experiment evaluating encoding strategies, a researcher taught participants 15 new psychological concepts. One group took notes to help learn the concepts while the other group was asked to create a mnemonic device for each concept. In this experiment, what is the independent variable?

Ms. Regan thinks her students exhibit more than one type of intelligence

Mr. Reagan, who is a teacher, agrees more with theories of multiple intelligences than theories about g. Which of the following scenarios would he agree with?

Ms. Ritter will likely see her students poor test results during the school year

Ms. Ritter is a high school math teacher. She believes that some people are born good at math and others are not

selective attention

One night, Noel went to a new restaurant. While waiting for her meal she could not ignore the slurping sound

recognition processes led to higher scores than recall on this quiz

Professor Duvall teaches two classes of psych. For class Y, their first quiz consisted of multiple choice questions

repeated testing can improve learning and memory

Professor Jovan randomly assigns each student in the psych class to one the the three groups

Random assignment

Researchers want to examine if there is a difference between the retention of implicit vs explicit memories

memory that can hold only a small amount of information

Short term memory is best described in which of the following ways

context dependent memory

Students in Dr. Milnes intro to psych class met three times a week in a large windowless lecture hall

Recognition is easier than recall

Ten students were expected to learn about the geography of the major rivers, mountains, and cities of the US state of Arizona

Circadian rhythm

The biological clock that operates in humans to adjust to their functioning to night-and-day periodically is referred to as

accommodation

The change in curvature of the lens that enables the eye to focus on objects at various distances is called

long term memory

When studying for a vocabulary test, Catherine read out one of her vocabulary words and its definition aloud several times. About twenty second later, she still remembered the words meaning, but then she moved on

When people have better recall of things that occur at the beginnning of a sequence

Which of the following best describes the primary effect?

Erik studied Italian in college

Which of the following best illustrates the forgetting curve

it occurs where the optic nerve leaves the eye

Which of the following is true about the blind spot in the eye

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

Which of the following scenarios best describes the role of context effects in memory?

Steven studies a list of word pairs and is later given the first word of each pair and asked to recall the second word in the pair

Which of the following scenarios involves using cued recall

the first time Colleen tries to remember Leos name it takes her a long time, but over time she remembers it quickly (D)

Which of the following scenarios is best explained by long term potentiation

Which of the following explains transduction

the process by which stimuli are converted into neural signals