Ch 5-7 (PSY 101)

Question 1

tests using recall

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short answer, essay, fill in the blanks

Question 2

“part of a vehicle’s engine mistakenly ate ink”

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intake

Question 3

when retrieving long term memory, bits and pieces of information are gathered from various areas and put back together

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constructive processing

Question 4

animals who have been taught language with some success

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chimpanzee, parrot, dolphin

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when one conditioned stimulus is used to create another

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high-order conditioning

Question 6

produce divergent thinking

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how many uses can you think of for a stapler?

Question 7

main type of memory problem that people with dementia (including alz’s) typically have

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anterograde amnesia

Question 8

evidence suggests iconic memory really lasts about ___ of a second

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one-quarter

Question 9

according to sternberg what type of intelligence would traditional intelligence test measure

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analytical

Question 10

linguistic relativity hypothesis states

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language shapes thoughts

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although capacity of short term memory is limited, more items can be held in this kind of storage through the process of

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chunking

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algorithms are a type of

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mechanical solution

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best method for encoding long term memories is probably to use

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elaborative rehearsal

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one theory that explains infantile amnesia states that these memories are

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implicit and not retrievable consciously

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concepts forment from everyday experiences (not always well defined)

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natural concepts

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basic units of sound

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phonemes

Question 17

in classical conditioning the __ are important in learning. but in operant conditioning, its the __ that determine whether learning will occur

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antecedents

consequences

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estimate of heritability of intelligence

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.50

Question 19

a test that gets similar scores for a person each time they take it

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reliable

Question 20

long term memory revised and updates more or less constantly

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episodic

Question 21

according to sternberg “street smarts” is another way of saying

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practical intelligence

Question 22

to make punishment more effective, it should be

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paired with reinforcement of the correct behavior

Question 23

serial position effect predicts that information remembered from a list will come at the ___ of the list

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beginning and end

Question 24

added concept of reinforcement to learning theory

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skinner

Question 25

in familial retardation, the degree is typically

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mild

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knowledge gained from school is

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semantic memory

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Ebbinghaus found information is forgotten

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quickly at first, then tapering off gradually

Question 28

Goleman says ___ intelligence is more powerful influence on life success than other intelligences

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emotional

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problem with using decay or disuse theory to explain forgetting long term memory is that

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older people can still remember things from their early years

Question 30

learning

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any relative permanent change in behavior brought about by experience

Question 31

in Terman’s study of gifted children, social and behavioral problems were found only in

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IQs of 180 or higher in childhood

Question 32

when tests give unfair advantage to someone because they’re from one particular background

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culturally biased

Question 33

intelligence

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ability to adapt, solve problems, and use resources effectively

Question 34

duration of echoic memory is __ than iconic memory but its capacity is probably ____

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longer

smaller

Question 35

mental activity that goes in the brain when a person is processing information

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thinking

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memories are simultaneously created and stored across mental network

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parallel distributed processing model

Question 37

Liz failed her math test, so her parents took away videogames for a month

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punishment by removal

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Gingkobiloba

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increases blood flow to brain

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difference between Wechsler and stanford-Binet tests

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Wechsler has several types of subscores in addition to one general scores

Question 40

memory best described

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active system that encodes, stores and retrieves information

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in applied behavior analysis

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skills are broken down into their smallest steps and then reinforced

Question 42

try to solve a problem the same way they’ve always solved problems

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a mental set

Question 43

pregnant mother drinks heavily

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fetal alcohol syndrome

Question 44

11 yr old can answer the same questions as a 15 yr old. 15 is her

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mental age

Question 45

artifical intelligence program able to beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov

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Deep blue

Question 46

the __ heuristic can be used to create and maintain stereotypes

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representative

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passage of time and frequency of events are examples of knowledge that is often subject to

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automatic encoding

Question 48

is eyewitness testimony accurate

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no, great possibility for false positive identification