AP Psychology Unit 5: Cognition

If a 50 year old man and his son move to a new country and have to learn a new language, the 50-year old man will have:

• more difficulty learning to produce phonemes that don't exist in his native language

• require less active processing to acquire the new language's synatx

• overregularize more often

• learn new vocabulary at a faster rate than his son

When you learn various steps used to complete a task, you are using a:

• mental image

• mental set

• mental map

• mental categroy

The hypothetical 'most typical' or best example of a category is a:

• mental type

• upside down processing technique

• mental set

• prototype

A student who scored a percentile rank of 90 on an achievement test is best characterized as having?

• scored lower than 90% of the test takers

• scored higher than 90% of the test takers

• answered 90% of the test questions correctly

• scored 90% of the highest possible score

A test that measures a student's potential ability is called:

• an achievement test

• an aptitude test

• a personality inventory

• an intelligence test

The first stage in memory processing involves________.

• encoding

• retrieval

• storage

• rehearsal

When trying to solve a complicated math problem, you decide to use a logical, step-by-step formula. This formula is called a:

• heuristic

• insight

• algorithm

• primer

A researcher wants to calculate an intelligence quotient based on a person's mental and chronological age. If the intelligence score is 130, and the student has a mental age of 13, what is his chronological age?

• 13

• 12

• 10

• 20

Raymond Cattell came up with this type of intelligence, which involves the ability to understand logical relationships, reason abstractly, and learn quickly:

• fluid intelligence

• crystallized intelligence

• source intelligence

• emotional intelligence

The cerebellum is most directly involved in?

• forming spatial memories

• forming emotional memories

• motor learning

• sensory processing