Unit 2 Part 2

Question 1

distributed practice

Answer 1

spacing effect

Question 2

Long-term Memory capacity, duration, content

Answer 2

Capacity (unlimited)
Duration (more than 30 seconds)
Content (semantic, episodic, procedural, associations, etc.)

Question 3

part of our psyche that mediates conscious reality

Answer 3

ego

Question 4

fixed mindset

Answer 4

belief that intelligence is unchanging, even with effort

Question 5

mood-congruent memory

Answer 5

same mood (emotion, feeling)

Question 6

categories with subdivisions

Answer 6

hierarchies

Question 7

Short-term Memory capacity, duration, content

Answer 7

Capacity (Miller’s 7)
Duration (30 sec)
Content (sensory mem)

Question 8

previously stored memories are retrieved, altered, then stored again

Answer 8

memory consolidation

Question 9

growth mindset

Answer 9

belief that learning and growing can impact intelligence which is subject to change and improvement

Question 10

retrograde amnesia

Answer 10

inability to remember the past, old memories stored in long-term memory

Question 11

Sensory memory capacity, duration, content

Answer 11

Capacity (large - each sense has limit)
Duration (fleeting)
Content (iconic, echoic, other senses))

Question 12

infantile amnesia

Answer 12

most people are unable to retrieve/ store memories from early childhood

Question 13

Process of processing

Answer 13

1) stimuli
2) Sensory memory
3)Attention
4) Woking/Short-term Memory
5) Encoding
6) Long-term Memory

Question 14

test is administered and scored in a consistent manner; same procedures and environment;

Answer 14

standardization

Question 15

the course of forgetting is initially rapid, then levels off with time

Answer 15

the forgetting curve

Question 16

achievement test

Answer 16

intended to reflect what you’ve learned

Question 17

the experience of feeling confident that one knows an answer, yet is unable to recall it

Answer 17

tip-of-the tongue phenomenon

Question 18

level of performance typically associated with certain chronological age

Answer 18

mental age

Question 19

memory devices, often using association, organization, or imagery

Answer 19

mneumonics

Question 20

rehearsing in ways that promote meaning will help with longer-term memory storage (deep processing)

Answer 20

elaborative rehearsal

Question 21

aptitude test

Answer 21

intended to predict what you’ll be able to learn

Question 22

try to encode all at once

Answer 22

massed practice

Question 23

proactive interferance

Answer 23

prior learning disrupts new information

Question 24

adding new information/details to familiar places

Answer 24

Methods of Loci

Question 25

when some people demonstrate highly superior memories, which indicates there’s some biological process that causes superior memory storage

Answer 25

autobiographical memory

Question 26

Working Memory capacity, duration, content

Answer 26

Capacity (Miller’s 7) Duration (30 sec) Content (incoming sensory and retrieved long-term

Question 27

retroactive interferance

Answer 27

new learnign distrupts old information

Question 28

number meant to measure intelligence based on performance on intelligence tests

Answer 28

intelligence quoitient

Question 29

brain “creates” memories as it pulls partial information out of storage

Answer 29

construcive memory

Question 30

state-dependent memory

Answer 30

same physical state (internal) - under the influence, alertness/awakeness

Question 31

anterograde amnesia

Answer 31

inability to form new memories

Question 32

multiple relatively independent intelligences

Answer 32

multiple intelligences

Question 33

one factor that lies at the heart of all abilities

Answer 33

general intelligence

Question 34

intelligence

Answer 34

ability to learn from experience, solve problems, adapt

Question 35

processes and strategies that get information into our memory

Answer 35

Encoding

Question 36

split-half reliability

Answer 36

splitting test in half and scoring each half separately, should get similar score on each half

Question 37

when imagining an event, a person is then more likely to believe the event occurred

Answer 37

imagination inflation

Question 38

how well it measures a concept or trait

Answer 38

construct validity

Question 39

context-dependent memory

Answer 39

same environment (external) - room

Question 40

incorrect memory for how, when, or where information was learned (misattributing information to a wrong source)

Answer 40

source amnesia

Question 41

produce learned information no cues

Answer 41

recall

Question 42

memory corrupted by misleading information (usually episodic)

Answer 42

misinformation effect

Question 43

when someone is exposed to a stereotype about others performing worse, that belief can improve your working memory, attention, and performance

Answer 43

stereotype lift

Question 44

identify learned information retrieval cues priming - wakening associations

Answer 44

recognition

Question 45

the psychodynamic theory that our unconscious forces forgetting to protect ourselves from distress

Answer 45

repression

Question 46

clustering items into groups, especially if meaningful

Answer 46

Chunking

Question 47

reliability

Answer 47

test will yield similar results each time it is taken

Question 48

Test-retest reliability

Answer 48

same person takes same test again, should get same score

Question 49

encode over multiple time periods

Answer 49

distributes practice

Question 50

How do you find IQ?

Answer 50

(mental age/chronological age) x 100

Question 51

Flynn-effect

Answer 51

over time, average intelligence has increased across the board

Question 52

how well it predicts behavior it means to predict

Answer 52

predictive validity

Question 53

someone is aware of a stereotype and is in a situation where that stereotype could be confirmed; belief impacts performance

Answer 53

stereotype threat