Unit 5

Santos is 8 years old and, according to the Stanford-Binet, he has a mental age of 10. What is his IQ?

125

Which of the following best illustrates the concept of stereotype threat?

A caucasian student does less well on a standardized test after reading in a test preparation manual that Asians typically outperform caucasians on such tests

which of the following best illustrates the concept of content validity

A test is determines to accurately assess the learning of material in particular course

Which of the following illustrates the serial position effect?

Alp is unable to remember the middle of his vocabulary list, but he can remember the first and last words on the list.

When someone provides his phone number to another person, he usually pause after the area code and again after the next three numbers. This pattern underscores the importance of

Chunking

Which of the following describes long-term potention

Constructed memories have the potential to either accurate or inaccurate

Charlotte was daydreaming when her teacher called on her and asked her to repeat what was just said in class. She was clearly not paying attention, but much to her surprise she found that she could indeed repeat the very last thing that was said. This was most likely the result of

Echoic memory

A runner's collection of the day that she completed her first marathon is most clearly an example of which of the following types of memory?

Episodic

which of the hollowing methods is used in studies designed to determine the primary components of intelligence

Factor analysis

people are more concerned about a medical procedure when told it has ten percent death percent rate than they are when they are told they have a 90 percent survival rate. This is because

Framing

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

What would be true of a thermometer that always read three degrees off?

It is reliable but not valid

The difficulty many people have recalling the details of common objects such as pennies can best be explained by

Lack of encoding

Hermann Ebbinghaus is considered a pioneer in memory research because he established hte importance of

Long-term potention

Which of the following statements concerning memory is true?

Memories are often a blend of correct and incorrect information

what percentage of people score between 70 and 130 on a typical test of intelligence

Ninety- Five percent

Jacques wants to remember a phone number, so he repeats it aloud until he can get the numbers types and saved in his it aloud until he can get he numbers typed and saved in his ce phone. He is using the process of:

Rehearsal

Howard Gardner found evidence of multiple intelligences in individuals who scored low on intelligence but had an area of exceptional ability-for example to make complex calculations. These people have:

Savant syndrome

Which of the following is most likely to be used as evidence against the concept of g

Savant syndrome

A friend mentions to you that she heard humans never forget anything; we remember everything that ever happens to us. What concept from memory research most directly contridictes this belief?

Sensory memory

Stephen misremembers a dream as something that really happened. What term describes this issue?

Source amnesia

Barbara is a talented architect. On which type of intelligence will she most heavily rely to complete her next building design?

Spatial

Heritable of intelligence refers to

The amount of variation in intelligence that can be attributed to genetics

Recall is more difficult process than recognition because...

The process of recognition involves matching a person, event, or object with something already in memory

Which of the following is always true of standardized tests?

They are supposed to be administered and scored in a consistent manner

The "magical number seven plus or minus two" refers to the

capactity of short term memory

the inability to see a problem from a fresh perspective is called

confirmation bias

You ar eikely to remember more psychology in your psychology classroomo than in other envirnmnets because of

contect effects

Paul takes a test in the army to see if her would make a good pilot. Such a test is a(n).

context effects

Phonemes and morphemes refer to

elements of language

The ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions is called

emotional intelligence

Which of the following lists most accurately represents the progression of memory according to the information- processing theory

encoding storage retrieval

refers to the knowledge we hold for almost any behavior or physical skill we learn

explicit memory

Charles Spearman's g refers to

general intelligence

the flynn effect refers to the

gradual improvement in intelligence test scores over the last several decades

a female student was injected by a college because her score on a test used by the college to predict performance there was below the college's cutoff score. an influential alumnus of the college intervened on the student's behalf and the student was admitted. four years later the student graduated with honors. the most likely explanation of this outcome is that the test

had less than perfect validity

The purpose of Alfred Binet's early intelligence test was to:

identify differences among ethnic and racial groups

Memories of one's first pet and how to read reside in :

long-term memory

The intelligence quotient compares a child's:

mental age to his or her chronological age

Hermann Ebinghaus' forgetting curve indicates

most forgetting occurs early on and then levels off

The cerebellum is mostly directly involved:

motor learning

A standard test must have all of the following EXCEPT

multiple choice questions

the fundamental sounds of language are called

phonemes

Students who do well on college entrance exams generally do well in college. This helps establish that these exams have:

predict validity

Recall for items at the end of a list is known as the:

recency effect

Which of the following increases the chance that an individual will remember a telephone number that has been called several times within a short period

rehearsal

Memory is our memory of facts and knowledge

semantic

A rat is injected with adreniline and then is trained to perform a novel task. Later, it is found that he performs the same task best whenk agian given a dose of adrenoline this finding is consistent with rearch on

state depednetn theory

a rat is injected with adrenaline and then is trained to perform a novel task. later, it is found that he performs the same task best when again given a dose of adrenakine. this finding is consistent with research

state-dependent memory

which of the following concepts refers to the structural and organization of a sentence

syntax

Which of the following is an exmaple of implicit memory

the ability to find a hidden Wheres Waldo figure wiht practice