"Psychology Kahoot"
The Flynn effect refers to the...
The rise in avg. IQ scores over time
Noam Chomsky's view of language proposes that:
There is an inherent language acquisition device
When rehearsal of incoming information is prevented which of the following will most likely occur?
There will be no transfer of information to long-term memory.
Metacognition refers to...
Thinking about thinking.
A technique that enables a person to control physiological responses that are normally inveteracy is known as:
biofeedback
Eleanor Gibson and Richard walk used a visual cliff with a glass-covered drop off to examine the development of:
depth perception
According to the information processing view of memory, the first stage in memory processing involves
encoding
To achieve the Babinski reflex a person should...
stroke the sole baby's foot
In Loftus's study of memory reconstruction in which students viewed films of a car accident, the major influence on recall was
the wording of questions the students were asked about the accident
Gender differences have most often been found in which of the following?
Aggression
In Pavlov's experiments in classical conditioning, the dogs' salivation was...
Both an unconditioned and a conditioned response
Involves the association between two stimuli
Classical conditioning
A mental image of a spacial layout is a
Cognitive map
Erick Erikson's theory of development assumes which of the following principles underlies development at all stages
Each stage refers a psychological barrier they have to get over
Only being able to see an object for what it was designed for is?
Functional fixedness
Which area of the brain is not well developed until three years of age and explains infantile amnesia?
Hippocampus
This involves the formation of associations between responses and their consequences
Operant conditioning
A teacher has to learn new names every year and finds it difficult to remember the names of the former students. This is an example of?
Retroactive interference.
Mental shortcuts or rules of thumb that help solve problems and reduce mental effort are called?
heuristics
Understanding that an object exists even if you can't physically see it is known as...
object permanence
