Ch. 7 Memory - Brain Functions

Question 1

Involved in retrospective memory; remembering things from the past; and prospective memory ; remembering things you need to do in the future. (Explicit memory)

Right lobe: active when we try to retrieve memory

Left lobe: active when we encode new information into memory

Involved in Implicit memory for priming

Answer 1

Frontal lobe

Question 2

Involved in retrospective memory; remembering things from the past; and prospective memory ; remembering things you need to do in the future. (Explicit memory)

Involved in Implicit memory for priming

Answer 2

Hippocampus

Question 3

Involved in explicit memory

Answer 3

Amygdala

Question 4

Involved in implicit memory, active when needed to do skills

Answer 4

Cerebellum

Question 5

(1) Is the mental activity of transforming information to reach conclusions
(2) Involves evaluating alternatives and making choices among them.

Answer 5

Reasoning vs. decision-making

Question 6

(1) Thinking that produces the single best solution to a problem.
(2) Thinking that produces many solutions to the same problem.

Answer 6

(1) Convergent vs. (2) Divergent thinking

Question 7

The state of being alert and mentally present for one’s everyday activities v. The state of being receptive to other ways of looking at things.

Answer 7

Role of mindfulness and open mindedness in critical thinking

Question 8

An individual’s level of mental development relative to that of others.

Answer 8

mental age (MA) in IQ

Question 9

Age from birth

Answer 9

chronological age in IQ

Question 10

IQ

Answer 10

(MA/CA) X 100 = IQ

Question 11

This Bias could exclude groups of people such as minorities and people who live in rural areas and only apply to urban people.

Answer 11

Role of cultural biases in intelligence tests