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WorksheetsPsychology Unit 5|Questions (1-60)
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 30mins
When Amy was 7 years of age she had a babysitter from France. During this time Amy learned to speak a little French years later when Amy got to college she signed up for a beginning French class Amy learned the material in her French class much more quickly than her classmates did Amy's rapid learning was most likely do to
implicit memory
episodic memory
spontaneous recovery
deductive reasoning
fluid intelligence
which of the following is true of analogies and supporting problem solving
relevant analogies usually help people solve problems and people do spontaneously think of relevant analogies
relevant analogies usually help people solve problems but people often do not spontaneously think of relevant analogies
relevant analogies usually hinder people when solving problems and people do spontaneously think of relevant analogies
relevant analogies usually hinder people when solving problems but people often do not spontaneously think of relevant analogies
relevant analogies neither help nor hinder people when solving problems
to score high on a test of creativity a person's answers should be
original and valuable
normative and Divergent
normative and convergent
unconscious and illogical
simple and contextual
a researcher shows the same video of an automobile accident two different groups of participants
participants in group one are asked did you see a broken headlight
participants in group 2 are asked did you see the broken headlight
the researcher finds that the participants in group 2 are much more likely to recall having seen a broken headlight even though there actually was no broken headlight in the video the researcher is investigating the effects of the following on recall
Algorithms
Heuristics
Framing
proactive interference
the Primacy effect
Bailey and Marcus packed everything they thought that they would need for a weekend camping trip when it rained and they realized they had not brought rain gear Bailey said I knew we should have packed raincoats Bailey's thinking illustrates which of the following concepts
an algorithm
a flashbulb memory
hindsight bias
the representativeness heuristic
prospective memory
5-year-old tahani is entering a school where English is the only language spoken but in her home her family uses a combination of both English and her family's native language when she starts school she takes a test measuring her English language development her score is well below that of the other children in her class most of whom live in homes where only one language is spoken which of the following is the most likely explanation of tahani's test scores
Tehani has a language specific impairment and should go to a language therapist
the test is culturally biased and contains Concepts tahani does not know
because tahani speaks more than one language her Proficiency in each language may come later than that of her monolingual peers
tahani is experiencing language confusion due to her exposure to multiple languages
tahani experienced stereotype threat while taking the test and that caused her to score below her peers
choline received a score of 100 on an IQ test the mean for the test is 100 and the standard deviation is 15 assume the test had a normal distribution of scores Colleen score on the test was equal to or greater than the scores of what percent of people
100
50
68
84
15
initially intelligence quotients were calculated on the basis of a person's mental and chronological ages using that approach a person with a mental age of 12 and an intelligent score of 120 would have a chronological age of
10
12
14
16
18
Cassidy can only remember the titles of the first few books her teacher told her to get from the library which of the following concepts would best explain Cassidy's experience
zone of proximal development
Insight learning
the misinformation effect
the Primacy effect
general intelligence
average IQ scores have increased steadily over the past 100 years it has been argued that this effect is most likely due to
An increase in the average number of years in school
a decrease in access to Medical Care, clean water, and nutritious food
and increase in population
a decrease in genetic mutations
and increase in genetic diversity
the cerebellum is most directly involved in
forming emotional memories
forming explicit and spatial memories
judgment, higher order cognition, and personality
sensory processing and relaying
motor learning
Colleen likes to have others do things for her and is quick to criticize other people for being dependent and lazy this demonstrates which defense mechanism
Displacement
Regression
Projection
Rationalization
Sublimation
Maeve wants to change her college major but has decided not to because she is close to finishing she believes that the time she has spent in her current program will be wasted if she changes now maeve is experiencing
hindsight bias
availability bias
social desirability bias
the sunk cost fallacy
the self-serving bias
Corey has a list of things he needs from the grocery store but forgets his list at home at the store Corey struggles to remember the items on his list but when he sees a display of oranges he remembers that oranges were on his list this is an example of
Recall
Recognition
working memory
sensory memory
Source amnesia
When Cory is given a logic problem to solve he systematically tries every possible solution until he finds the correct answer Cory's strategy is to use
an algorithm
a heuristic
a mnemonic
cognitive restructuring
Insight
according to research by Fergus I. m. craik and endel tulving On levels of processing which of the following would most improve the ability to recall the word umbrella
Counting the number of syllables in the word umbrella
deciding whether an umbrella would be useful to pack for a trip
mentally spelling the word umbrella
writing the word umbrella
deciding whether the word umbrella rhymes with the word banana
which of the following scenarios involves using cued recall
Letitia uses a mnemonic device to help her remember the names of all the lobes of the brain
Steven studies a list of word pairs and is later given the first word of each pair and ask to recall the second word in the pair
Evelyn studies a list of words and is later asked to list all of the words that were on the list
to help her remember what she needs from the grocery store Marjorie imagines walking through her kitchen and visualizing what is missing
Kumail scores well on a multiple choice quiz because he recognizes all of the correct answers when he sees them
Denny does not have wrapping paper to use to wrap a birthday present and so he decides to use colorful newspaper Comics instead Denny's solution demonstrates that he has overcome
functional fixedness
the fundamental attribution error
cognitive dissonance
Egocentrism
a self-serving bias
The difficulty many people have recalling the details of common objects such as pennies can best be explained by
Interference
memory decay
Repression
a lack of encoding
Amnesia
A teacher has to learn 170 new students names every year and finds it difficult to remember the names of former students the teacher's memory problem most likely results from
proactive interference
retroactive interference
retroactive amnesia
Anterograde amnesia
The misinformation effect
Dr Sosa administers the first exam to all his introductory psychology students which amounts to 250 students total the mean for the first exam was 75% the grades for Dr Sosa's classes are distributed as shown below
Dr Sosa concludes the students in his class are achieving appropriate Mastery of the material why is this conclusion invalid
Dr Sosa should have evaluated each of his classes separately
the distribution is negatively skewed
the distribution is positively skewed
Dr Sosa did not evaluate enough students
Dr Sosa evaluated too many students
Creativity is most closely associated with which of the following
Convergent thinking
Divergent thinking
spatial awareness
interpersonal intelligence
intrapersonal intelligence
the difference between divided attention and selective attention is that divided attention
Requires more automatic processing than selective attention does
is used primarily in simple tasks whereas selective attention is used primarily in complex tasks
is related to the development of reading skills in children whereas selective attention is not
is more highly correlated with intelligence than selective attention is
is related only to auditory processing whereas selective attention is related only to visual processing
Dr Roberts conducts a study in which one group of participants counts the number of syllables in each member of a list of twenty words and the second group creates stories from the same set of words one later asked to write down as many of the previously seen words as possible the second group of participants recalls more words than the first group this study shows the importance of
the pragmatics of language
semantic and encoding
maintenance rehearsal
convergent thinking
shallow processing
Herman ebbinghaus tested his memory using combinations of three letter nonsense syllables which of the following graphs best represents his findings about the relationship between forgetting and time
A: Take an L
B: Sad face
C: Flat line
D: Over the hill
E: Wave
which of the following best illustrates ebbinghaus forgetting curve
Lawrence studied for his first Spanish test by sitting down and cramming for 2 hours and he studied for his second Spanish test by spacing out his studying for 30 minutes over the course of the week he did better on the second test than the first
Eric studied Italian and college after he graduated he went backpacking in Europe where he realized he had forgotten a lot of Italian years later he went on another trip to Italy and was surprised to discover that he remembered about the same amount of Italian as during his first trip
when Roost first moves to a new country she keeps trying to use Customs from her old country over time she adjusts to her new country's ways
Marsha remembers only information that agrees with her current understanding and ignores everything else
Beatriz tells a story that she heard from her friend but she cannot remember who told her the story
after visiting her professor's office Rachel writes down everything she remembers seeing there she correctly remembers many details but she falsely remembers seeing books even though there were no books in the office additionally she did not remember seeing a skull that was in the office which memory concept best explains why Rachel falsely encoded the books and failed to encode the skull
the method of loci
Schemas
Association Networks
sensory memory
context effects
To help himself remember the name of his new colleagues hope Jose thinks about the meaning of her name the feeling of hopefulness which of the following concepts best corresponds to Jose's strategy
Chunking
long-term potentation
semantic encoding
Self-reference
Imagery
Professor Belvedere wants to help her Anatomy students memorize the names of different parts of the body which of the following techniques will best help her students
teaching them a rhyme for each word
asking them questions about the meaning of each word
writing the words in different fonts and having the students think about the font that each word is printed in
writing the words in different colors and having the students think about the color that each word is printed in
having them write sentences where each word of the sentence starts with the same letter as one of the parts of the body
A test author most interested in ensuring that individuals receive similar scores on a personality test every time they take it is attempting to increase which of the following
Validity
Reliability
experimenter expectancy effects
Standardization
statistical significance
Piper reads about someone described as adventurous and extroverted she then judges that this person is more likely to be a lawyer who enjoys hiking than a lawyer who does not the best explanation for Piper's error is that she is basing her judgment on
The availability heuristic
the anchoring and adjustment heuristic
the representativeness heuristic
confirmation bias
predictable word bias
Jim has seen reports of a number of cases of Ebola on the news he is more afraid of Contracting Ebola than tuberculosis even though the risk of infection of tuberculosis is greater than that of Ebola Jim spear would most likely be attributed to
The representative heuristic
the availability heuristic
and illusory correlation
functional fixedness
gambler's fallacy
Martine needs a hammer but cannot find one as she looks around her apartment her gaze passes over a metal paperweight and some other objects that could potentially serve as a makeshift Hammer however she is so focused on these objects typical uses that she does not think to use any of them as a hammer Martine is experiencing which of the following.
the fundamental attribution error
functional fixedness
Blindsight
the Hawthorne effect
Repression
which of the following types of intelligence is most clearly demonstrated by an individual's knowledge of facts
Fluid
Practical
Analytical
Kinesthetic
Crystallized
most intelligence tests are normed such that the mean score is 100 and the standard deviation is 15 therefore the discovery of the Flynn effect leads one to conclude that
IQ test should be re normed at periodic intervals
the tests may not have been valid when they were initially constructed
members of minority groups may not be accurately assessed by IQ tests
the relatively High reliability coefficients for IQ tests may not be accurate
IQ scores tend not to change over the course of a person's life
The type of intelligence that Howard Gardner described as individuals abilities to understand themselves and to be aware of their talents and limitations is
Naturalistic
Interpersonal
Kinesthetic
Intrapersonal
G
Genie was a girl who endured abusive and neglectful conditions and was deprived of language exposure until she was rescued at age 13 despite remediation Genie was unable to speak fluently historically this case study was used to demonstrate the effects of
Temperament
critical periods
linguistic determinism
self-fulfilling prophecies
cognitive dissonance
after having a stroke resulting from a blockage of blood to the medial temporal lobe Gerald could not remember new information such as the books he had just read new songs he had just heard or the faces of new people he had just met Gerald was experiencing
dissociative fugue
dissociative amnesia
retrograde amnesia
anterograde amnesia
conversion disorder
ms Regan who is a teacher agrees more with Howard Gardner's theory of intelligence than Charles spearman's theory of intelligence which of the following scenarios would she most agree with
ms Regan's student shuri is excellent at math so she concludes that Sherry must also have high verbal ability
ms Regan thinks that her students exhibit more than one type of intelligence for example she noticed student Noel plays well with others as well as alone
Ms Regan thinks that her students exhibit three specific types of intelligence
ms Reagan observes that her student money is practical creative and analytical so she concludes that Lenny must be the most intelligent person in her class
because Jenny can memorize every book she reads ms Regan concludes that she must have a high IQ
Mathematics achievement scores from a group of 10th graders are shown above the distribution is normal with a standard deviation of 10 approximately what percentage of students scored between 50 and 80
50%
68%
75%
82%
96%
There are four aces in a 52 card deck of playing cards prior to drawing a card from the deck Mary Alice estimates the chance that she will draw on Ace and win a prize over a series of Trials she did not draw on Ace so she replaced the card she had drawn Shuffle the deck and Drew a card the graph above shows her estimates of How likely it was that she would draw on Ace on the next child the pattern of Mary Alice's thinking reflects what psychological phenomenon
Mental set
Flynn effect
availability heuristic
gambler's fallacy
reasoning by analogy
in an experiment either a sad video or a Happy video was shown to participants to influence their moods the participants were then asked to memorize a list of words later the participants were again shown either the same video they had seen before memorizing the words or they were shown the other video and they were then asked to recall the word save memorized previously the results of the experiment summarized in the charts above best illustrate which psychological concept
Episodic memory
State dependent memory
latent learning
observational learning
and coding failure
Hillary glances at a graph and then turns her head away less than a second later when she tries to immediately remember what she saw which of the following types of memory does Hillary use
Iconic
Procedural
Declarative
Implicit
Echoic
which of the following activities most directly relies on the hippocampus
remembering events specific to one's life
memorizing the layout of a neighborhood
using short-term memory to recreate a picture when drawing a copy of a picture
rehearsing a fact to remember it for a short period of time
becoming classically conditioned
Dr Porter is studying the effectiveness of two intervention programs to improve the outcomes of children who have an intellectual disability which of the following groups of children should she include in her study
children who have been diagnosed with a language specific impairment
children who have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD
children who have an IQ between 50 and 69
children who have an IQ between 100 and 125
children who get c’s in their classes
Martin has been heavily influenced by the work of Louis Turman which of the following perspectives on intelligence would Martin most likely have
Intelligence is not fixed but rather is a dynamic and changing capacity
intelligence is not fixed and can be cultivated through education
intelligence is primarily a biologically based capacity
creativity is the most predictive sign of intelligence
memory is the most predictive sign of intelligence
Maki is a 3-month-old living in a household of Japanese speakers which of the following best describes how her ability to discriminate phonemes will develop
currently she will likely be able to discriminate the phonemes \l\ and \r\; After she reaches about 8 months of age she will have begun to lose the ability to discriminate these phonemes
currently she will likely be able to discriminate the phonemes \l\ and \r\; after she reaches about 8 months of age her ability to discriminate these phonemes will start to become enhanced
Currently she will likely be unable to discriminate the phonemes \l\ and \r\; after she reaches about 8 months of age she will start to develop the ability to discriminate these phonemes
Currently she will likely be unable to discriminate the phonemes \l\ and \r\; after she reaches about 8 months of age she will still be unable to discriminate these phonemes
Currently she will likely be able to discriminate the phonemes \l\ and \r\; after she reaches about 8 months of age she will be equally able to discriminate these phonemes
which of the following statements is true of insight problem solving
it involves trying every possible solution until finding one that works
it is only used to solve verbal problems and not spatial ones
it can only occur in situations where the problem space is very large
it requires an incubation period and what's the problem solver can start fresh on the problem
it occurs most frequently with well-defined problems
A psychologist has just developed a new test that he hopes will be a good measure of intelligence at the surface level the questions appear to be the types of puzzles and problems that would provide an intellectual Challenge and give insight into someone's intellectual abilities unfortunately when he distributes the test to a classroom of college students it is not appeared to perform similarly to existing measures of intelligence the test is not predict student gpas and in fact is better at predicting performance on a measure of anxiety than intelligence which of the following characteristics does the new intelligence test possess
Construct validity because the psychologist has demonstrated that the test measures what it is intended to measure
discriminant validity because the psychologist has demonstrated that the test is related to a test that measures anxiety
face validity because the test looks like it should measure intelligence
convergent validity because the test predicts performance on other tests
predictive validity because the test predicts future academic performance
James takes an IQ test when he is in the third grade and recieves a score of 112. When he is tested in sixth grade with an alternative version of the same test, his score is 114. The fact that the two scores are very similar most directly indicates that the IQ test is
valid
realiable
biased
standardized
accurate
one Joe arrives at the library he can choose from any of several strategies that might help him find the book he needs he could examine all the books on every shelf and be certain that he would eventually find the book he wants but the strategy would take too long Joe decides instead to ask a librarian to direct him to the appropriate section of the library Joe is using
Fixation
a mental set
a prototype
a Heuristic
An algorithm
Janie is successful with word games that require her to create words out of a series of letters which of the following combinations would likely contribute to her success
Linguistic intelligence and a mental set
linguistic intelligence and heuristics
spatial intelligence and functional fixedness
spatial intelligence and heuristics
spatial intelligence and a mental set
Jordan learns a trick to solve one particular type of math problem. He then uses the same trick to solve other problems of math problems, even though it does not work and he keeps getting the wrong answer. Jordan's use of the trick is an example of
spontaneous recovery
reversability
a prototype
insight
a mental set
Kathy's learning how to cook she follows every direction on each recipe step by step to make sure her food tastes good which of the following describes the problem solving approach that Kathy is using
Algorithm
representativeness heuristic
Divergent thinking
cognitive map
Prototype
Wolfgang Kohler considered a chimpanzee sudden solving of a problem evidence of
Instinct
Modeling
learning set
Insight
spontaneous recovery
Maria is a 13 year old congenitally deaf child who was born to hearing parents living in a remote area since birth her parents have provided love nourishment educationally enriching toys and develop their own hand signals to communicate with her about basic necessities however Maria did not begin to learn sign language until she was 12 and the family moved to a city and encountered members of a deaf Community Maria has found it very difficult to learn sign language no matter what her instructors try which of the following concepts best explains Marias difficulty learning sign language
latent learning
a sensitive period
cognitive dissonance
Maslow's hierarchy Of needs
Egocentrism
Lewis terman studies of gifted children indicated that
they often experience psychological problems as adults
they frequently have difficulty interacting with peers
they generally demonstrate above average emotional stability and social satisfaction and adulthood
their intelligence scores continue to increase throughout their lives
they are more likely than average to have difficulties in marriage or other personal relationships as adults
The utterance likes dog my Swim to, bad dream does not sound correct because it violates the rules of
Lexicon
Prosody
Syntax
fast mapping
Morphemes
and legal cases Elizabeth Loftus research on the misinformation effect is most often used to cast doubt on which of the following
The knowledge of expert Witnesses
the Judgment of jurors
the memory of eyewitnesses
the impartiality of judges
the intelligence of attorneys
A man sustains the head injury after the injury he is able to tie his shoes but he does not recall where he lives which aspect of the man's memory is intact and which aspects is dysfunctional respectively
Procedural and semantic
procedural and sensory
semantic and sensory
episodic and procedural
episodic and semantic
