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Learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information is known as:
Memory
Conditioning
Introspection
Insight
Before we can memorize information, first our brain has to organize it as it comes in from our senses. This is:
Storage
Retrieval
Encoding
Forgetting
For no reason at all, you decide remember that trip you took to Six Flags last year. This behavior is an example of:
Encoding
Relearning
Recognition
Recall
Part of our sensory memory, this refers to the visual information that we can hold on to for about 3/8ths of a second.
Iconic
Echoic
Semantic
Working
This type of encoding allows us to make meaningful connections between concepts in order to remember them better.
Iconic
Semantic
Echoic
Auditory
Information that we are currently thinking about, whether it's just been encoded or pulled from our long term memory, is handled by the:
Working Memory
Sensory Memory
Implicit Memory
Anterograde Memory
George Miller and Herman Ebbinghaus both explored the limits of the short term memory. The number of items we can hold there is about ____ on average.
3
5
7
13
Automatically encoded memories of things like knowing how to ride a bike are known as:
Explicit memories
Episodic Memories
Implicit Memories
Semantic Memories
Which of the following brain parts is NOT directly involved in memory creation?
Hippocampus
Basal Ganglia
Cerebellum
Brain Stem
Condensing "194520011492" into "1945," "2001" and "1492" to make them easier to remember illustrates which principle?
Mnemonics
Hierarchies
Method of Loci
Chunking
When you want to remember a list of items for the grocery store, you might map them onto your fingers. "Index finger is milk," "Middle finger is eggs..." This illustrates which memory principle?
Hierarchies
Method of Loci
Mnemonics
Episodic Memory
When you can't remember your NEW friend Janna's name because you keep thinking of your OLD friend Juno's name, you are a victim of:
Proactive Interference
Retroactive Interference
Clive Wearing is unable to create new memories due to his:
Anterograde Amnesia
Retrograde Amnesia
Proactive Interference
Retroactive Interference
When a memory is UNCONSCIOUSLY removed from our ability to remember it, it has been
Repressed
Suppressed
Forgotten
"How fast were the cars going when they CRASHED?" The word crashed can elicit a different answer in a subject than the word "impacted." This illustrates the power of Elizabeth Loftus'
Proactive Interference
Retroactive Interference
Misinformation Effect
Anterograde Amnesis
When you think of the concept of "Bird," the first bird you might think of is "Pigeon." That's because a pigeon is likely your __________ of "bird."
Heuristic
Schema
Stereotype
Prototype
If you fail to think of an ostrich as a "bird" because it doesn't match your prototype of what a bird is, you're limited by your
availability Heuristic
Representativeness Heuristic
Algorithm
Confirmation Bias
Computers and humans are both capable of ___________ when it comes to problem solving, but it's not the most efficient way of doing things.
Heuristics
Algorithms
Insight
This woman's focus on the one bit of information that agrees with her illustrates the:
Functional Fixedness
Mental Set
Confirmation Bias
Belief Perseverence
"If all else fails, kick it" works for some things, but if we are limited only to what has worked before, then we are being restrained by our:
Mental Set
Algoritms
Framing
Concepts
Jill Price has the ability to remember her life with near-perfect accuracy thanks to her:
Mnemonics
Eidetic Memory
Hierarchies
Schemas
Kohler's monkeys ponder problems about how to access trapped food until they stumble upon a solution with a burst of inspiration known as:
Insight
Prototype
Heuristic
Algorithm
According to Ebbinghaus' Forgetting Curve, how much unpracticed information is lost within an hour?
42%
54%
64%
72%
"1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10." If I remember "9 and 10" the best, it's because of the
Recency Effect
Primacy Effect
Spacing Effect
If we want to learn a subject the best, we should expose ourselves to the material over the course of several days, with plenty of sleep in between. This is known as the
Spacing Effect
Primacy Effect
Recency Effect
One of the reasons we don't remember something is that it never gets into our memory in the first place. This is known as:
Storage Decay
Retrieval Failure
Encoding Failure
Which of the following is NOT a step in the Information Processing model of Memory?
Storage
Encoding
Retrieval
Modification
Which of the following is MOST likely to create a Flashbulb Memory?
Watching a shocking national event on TV
An average Tuesday
A really good dinner
"A hammer is for hammering and pulling nails ONLY" is an example of
Flexibility
Functional Fixedness
Creativity
Insight
A critique of IQ tests is that it's difficult to make them universally good for everyone. The people who make them always have a(n)
different ideas of what intelligence is
Cultural Bias
Stereotype Threat
The reason that we generally refer to old people as "wise" is that they have a large amount of
Crystallized Intelligence
Fluid Intelligence
The Flynn Effect suggests that we are getting ____________ over time.
Smarter
less intelligent
More Culturally Biased
If my test gets similar scores no matter who grades it, then my test has:
Interrater Reliability
Split Half Reliability
Content Validity
Predictive Validity
If my algebra intelligence test accurately foresees how well a person will do in Algebra, then it has
Content Validity
Predictive Validity
Test-Retest Reliability
Split Half Reliability
"I can't fail this test, or people will use me as an excuse to call blondes dumb." This is an example of a(n)
Stereotype Threat
Cultural Bias
This approach to intelligence suggests that we have a central value that makes it easier to learn specific things.
G-Factor
IQ
Multiple Intelligences
Emotional Intelligence
This approach to intelligence doesn't ask "IF you're smart," it asks "HOW are you smart?"
Multiple Intelligences
IQ
G-Factor Intelligence
Triarchic Theory
This approach to intelligence suggests that we may not be Analytically smart, but we might be Practically smart or Creatively Smart
Triarchic Intelligence
G-Factor Intelligence
Multiple Intelligences
IQ
Which of the following is NOT an element of Emotional Intelligence?
Manipulate Emotions
Perceive Emotions
Understand Emotions
Manage Emotions
If a ten year-old has a mental age of fifteen, they have an IQ of
50
100
150
175
The most common and modern intelligence test give a broad interpretation of a person's IQ. This is the:
WAIS
G-Factor Test
Multiple Intelligences Test
EQ Test
If I've established a norm for my test in terms of performance, and I can measure everyone's score against that norm, my test has been:
Standardized
Validated
Made Reliable
Taking different, related scores on an intelligence test and combining them into a larger score is known as:
Priming
Factor Analysis
Norm-Referencing
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