Memory and Intelligence test

The feeling that you know someone’s name, but cannot quite recall it, is an example of

• the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon

• the serial position effect

• anterograde amnesia

• retrograde amnesia

• state-dependent memory

Which of the following types of test is designed to measure an individual's knowledge of a subject?

• Achievement

• Attitude

• Aptitude

• Projective

• Interest inventory

Which of the following statements describes the Flynn effect?

• Intelligence quotient (IQ) scores in the United States were higher in 2003 than in 1993.

• IQ scores in the United States were lower in 1999 than in 1989.

• Children who attend Head Start programs show short-term gains in IQ scores.

• There is no statistically significant relationship between IQ scores and creativity.

• People may earn higher scores when they are told the test is a personality assessment rather than an intelligence test.

Which of the following is most likely to be used as evidence against the concept of g ?

• Mental age

• Standardization

• Insight

• Savant Syndrome

• Imprinting

Which of the following is the best example of fluid intelligence?

• Reciting the names of all the continents in the world without looking at a map

• Identifying the author of a very famous novel

• Giving an adequate definition of a difficult word

• Using cubes to figure out the solution to a previously unseen puzzle

• Recognizing a piece of classical music

Which of the following increases the chance that an individual will remember a telephone number that has been called several times within a short period?

• Spacing

• Retrieval

• Rehearsal

• Free recall

• Spontaneous recovery

When rehearsal of incoming information is prevented, which of the following will most likely occur?

• There will be no transfer of the information to long-term memory.

• The information will remain indefinitely in short-term memory.

• The sensory register will stop processing the information.

• Retrieval of the information from long-term memory will be easier.

• Information already in long-term memory will be integrated with the incoming information.

When a list of words is learned in order, the words most likely to be forgotten are those that are

• At the beginning of the list

• At the end of the list

• In the middle of the list

• Hardest to pronounce

• Easiest to spell

On individual intelligence tests such as the Stanford-Binet and Wechsler scales, an IQ of 100 indicates that the test taker

• correctly answered all of the items on the test

• obtained the highest scores in the standardization sample

• scored at the average level for test takers of the same age

• scored above the level of the average American adult

• took as long as the average test taker to answer the test items

When Lois looks at her wedding pictures, she has vivid memories of the early years of her marriage. The pictures serve as

• encoding devices

• Iconic memories

• Implicit memories

• Retrieval cues

• Semantic cues