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Psychology Unit 5|Questions (1-60)

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 30mins

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1.

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

a)

 implicit memory

b)

 episodic memory

c)

 spontaneous recovery

d)

deductive reasoning

e)

 fluid intelligence

2.

 which of the following is true of analogies and supporting problem solving

a)

 relevant analogies usually help people solve problems and people do spontaneously think of relevant analogies

b)

 relevant analogies usually help people solve problems but people often do not spontaneously think of relevant analogies

c)

 relevant analogies usually hinder people when solving problems and people do spontaneously think of relevant analogies

d)

 relevant analogies usually hinder people when solving problems but people often do not spontaneously think of relevant analogies

e)

 relevant analogies neither help nor hinder people when solving problems

3.

 to score high on a test of creativity a person's answers should be

a)

 original and valuable

b)

 normative and Divergent

c)

 normative and convergent

d)

 unconscious and illogical

e)

 simple and contextual

4.

 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

a)

Algorithms

b)

Heuristics

c)

Framing

d)

 proactive interference

e)

 the Primacy effect

5.

 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

a)

 an algorithm

b)

 a flashbulb memory

c)

 hindsight bias

d)

 the  representativeness heuristic

e)

 prospective memory

6.

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

a)

 Tehani has a language specific impairment and should go to a language therapist

b)

 the test is culturally biased and contains Concepts   tahani  does not know

c)

 because tahani speaks more than one language her Proficiency in each language may come later than that of her monolingual peers

d)

 tahani is experiencing language confusion due to her exposure to multiple languages

e)

 tahani experienced stereotype threat while taking the test and that caused her to score below her peers

7.

 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

a)

100

b)

50

c)

68

d)

84

e)

15

8.

 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

a)

10

b)

12

c)

14

d)

16

e)

18

9.

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

a)

 zone of proximal development

b)

 Insight learning

c)

the misinformation effect

d)

the  Primacy effect

e)

general intelligence

10.

 average IQ scores have increased steadily over the past 100 years it has been argued that this effect is most likely due to 

a)

An increase in the average number of years in school

b)

 a decrease in access to Medical Care, clean water, and nutritious food

c)

 and increase in population

d)

 a decrease in genetic mutations

e)

 and increase in genetic diversity

11.

 the cerebellum is  most directly involved in

a)

 forming emotional memories

b)

 forming explicit and spatial memories

c)

 judgment, higher order cognition, and personality

d)

sensory processing and relaying

e)

 motor learning

12.

 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

a)

 Displacement

b)

Regression

c)

Projection

d)

 Rationalization

e)

Sublimation

13.

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

a)

 hindsight bias

b)

 availability bias

c)

 social desirability bias

d)

 the sunk cost fallacy

e)

 the self-serving bias 

14.

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

a)

 Recall

b)

 Recognition

c)

 working memory

d)

 sensory memory

e)

 Source amnesia

15.

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

a)

 an algorithm

b)

 a heuristic

c)

 a mnemonic

d)

 cognitive restructuring

e)

 Insight

16.

 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 

a)

Counting the number of syllables in the word umbrella

b)

 deciding whether an umbrella would be useful to pack for a trip

c)

 mentally spelling the word umbrella

d)

  writing the word umbrella

e)

 deciding whether the word umbrella rhymes with the word banana

17.

 which of the following scenarios involves using cued recall

a)

Letitia  uses a mnemonic device to help her remember the names of all the lobes of the brain

b)

 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

c)

 Evelyn studies a list of words and is later asked to list all of the words that were on the list

d)

 to help her remember what she needs from the grocery store Marjorie imagines walking through her kitchen and visualizing what is missing

e)

 Kumail scores well on a multiple choice quiz because he recognizes all of the correct answers when he sees them

18.

 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

a)

 functional fixedness

b)

 the fundamental attribution error

c)

 cognitive dissonance

d)

Egocentrism

e)

 a self-serving bias

19.

The difficulty many people have recalling the details of common objects such as pennies can best be explained by

a)

  Interference

b)

 memory decay

c)

 Repression

d)

 a lack of encoding

e)

 Amnesia

20.

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

a)

 proactive interference

b)

 retroactive interference

c)

 retroactive amnesia

d)

  Anterograde amnesia

e)

The misinformation effect

21.

 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

a)

 Dr Sosa should have evaluated each of his classes separately

b)

 the distribution is negatively skewed

c)

 the distribution is positively skewed

d)

 Dr Sosa did not evaluate enough students

e)

 Dr Sosa evaluated too many students 

22.

Creativity is most closely associated with which of the following 

a)

Convergent thinking

b)

 Divergent thinking

c)

 spatial awareness

d)

 interpersonal intelligence

e)

 intrapersonal intelligence

23.

the difference between divided attention and selective attention is that divided attention 

a)

Requires more automatic processing than selective attention does

b)

 is used primarily in simple tasks whereas selective attention is used primarily in complex tasks

c)

 is related to the development of reading skills in children whereas selective attention is not

d)

 is more highly correlated with intelligence than selective attention is

e)

 is related only to auditory processing whereas selective attention is related only to visual processing

24.

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

a)

 the pragmatics of language

b)

 semantic and encoding

c)

 maintenance rehearsal

d)

 convergent thinking 

e)

 shallow processing

25.

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)

A: Take an L

b)

B: Sad face

c)

C: Flat line

d)

D: Over the hill

e)

E: Wave

26.

 which of the following best illustrates ebbinghaus forgetting curve

a)

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

b)

 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

c)

 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

d)

 Marsha remembers only information that agrees with her current understanding and  ignores everything else

e)

 Beatriz tells a story that she heard from her friend but she cannot remember who told her the story

27.

 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

a)

 the method of loci

b)

 Schemas

c)

 Association Networks

d)

 sensory memory

e)

 context effects

28.

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

a)

 Chunking

b)

 long-term  potentation

c)

 semantic  encoding

d)

 Self-reference

e)

 Imagery

29.

 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

a)

 teaching them a rhyme for each word

b)

 asking them questions about the meaning of each word

c)

  writing the words in different fonts and having the students think about the font that each word is printed in

d)

 writing the words in different colors and having the students think about the color that each word is printed in

e)

 having them write sentences where each word of the sentence starts with the same letter as one of the parts of the body

30.

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

a)

Validity

b)

Reliability

c)

 experimenter expectancy effects

d)

Standardization

e)

 statistical significance

31.

 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 

a)

The availability heuristic

b)

 the anchoring and adjustment heuristic

c)

 the  representativeness heuristic

d)

 confirmation bias

e)

 predictable word bias

32.

 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

a)

The representative heuristic

b)

 the availability heuristic

c)

 and illusory correlation

d)

 functional fixedness

e)

 gambler's  fallacy

33.

 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.

a)

 the fundamental attribution error

b)

 functional fixedness

c)

 Blindsight

d)

 the Hawthorne effect

e)

 Repression

34.

 which of the following types of intelligence is most clearly demonstrated by an individual's knowledge of facts

a)

Fluid

b)

 Practical

c)

 Analytical

d)

Kinesthetic

e)

 Crystallized

35.

 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

a)

 IQ test should be re normed at periodic intervals

b)

 the tests may not have been valid when they were initially constructed

c)

 members of minority groups may not be accurately assessed by IQ tests

d)

 the relatively High reliability coefficients for IQ tests may not be accurate

e)

 IQ scores tend not to change over the course of a person's life 

36.

The type of intelligence that Howard Gardner described as individuals abilities to understand themselves and to be aware of their talents and limitations is

a)

Naturalistic

b)

Interpersonal

c)

 Kinesthetic

d)

Intrapersonal

e)

G

37.

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

a)

Temperament

b)

 critical periods

c)

 linguistic determinism

d)

 self-fulfilling prophecies

e)

 cognitive dissonance

38.

 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

a)

 dissociative fugue

b)

 dissociative amnesia

c)

 retrograde amnesia

d)

 anterograde amnesia

e)

 conversion disorder

39.

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

a)

 ms Regan's student shuri is excellent at math so she concludes that Sherry must also have high verbal ability

b)

 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

c)

 Ms Regan thinks that her students exhibit three specific types of intelligence

d)

 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

e)

 because Jenny can memorize every book she reads ms Regan concludes that she must have a high IQ

40.

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

a)

 50%

b)

68%

c)

75%

d)

82%

e)

96%

41.

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

a)

Mental set

b)

  Flynn effect

c)

 availability heuristic

d)

 gambler's fallacy

e)

 reasoning by analogy

42.

 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 

a)

Episodic memory

b)

 State dependent memory

c)

 latent learning

d)

 observational learning

e)

 and coding failure

43.

 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

a)

Iconic

b)

 Procedural

c)

Declarative

d)

 Implicit

e)

Echoic

44.

 which of the following activities most directly relies on the hippocampus

a)

 remembering events specific to one's life

b)

 memorizing the layout of a neighborhood

c)

 using short-term memory to recreate a picture when drawing a copy of a picture

d)

 rehearsing a fact to remember it for a short period of time

e)

 becoming classically conditioned

45.

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

a)

 children who have been diagnosed with a  language specific impairment

b)

 children who have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD

c)

 children who have an IQ between 50 and 69

d)

 children who have an IQ between 100 and 125

e)

 children who get c’s in their classes

46.

Martin has been heavily influenced by the work of Louis Turman which of the following perspectives on intelligence would Martin most likely have 

a)

Intelligence is not fixed but rather is a dynamic and changing capacity

b)

 intelligence is not fixed and can be cultivated through education

c)

 intelligence is primarily a biologically based capacity

d)

 creativity is the most predictive sign of intelligence

e)

 memory is the most predictive sign of intelligence

47.

 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

a)

 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

b)

 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

c)

 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

d)

 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

e)

 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

48.

 which of the following statements is true of insight problem solving

a)

 it involves trying every possible solution until finding one that works

b)

 it is only used to solve verbal problems and not spatial ones

c)

 it can only occur in situations where the problem space is very large

d)

 it requires an incubation period and what's the problem solver can start fresh on the problem

e)

 it occurs most frequently with well-defined problems

49.

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

a)

Construct validity because the psychologist has demonstrated that the test measures what it is intended to measure

b)

 discriminant validity because the psychologist has demonstrated that the test is related to a test that measures anxiety

c)

 face validity because the test looks like it should measure intelligence

d)

 convergent validity because the test predicts performance on other tests

e)

 predictive validity because the test predicts future academic performance

50.

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

a)

valid

b)

realiable

c)

biased

d)

standardized

e)

accurate

51.

 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

a)

 Fixation

b)

 a mental set

c)

  a prototype 

d)

 a Heuristic

e)

 An algorithm

52.

 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

a)

Linguistic intelligence and a mental set

b)

 linguistic intelligence and heuristics

c)

 spatial intelligence and functional fixedness

d)

 spatial intelligence and heuristics

e)

 spatial intelligence and a mental set

53.

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

a)

spontaneous recovery

b)

reversability

c)

a prototype

d)

insight

e)

a mental set

54.

 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

a)

Algorithm

b)

  representativeness heuristic

c)

 Divergent thinking

d)

 cognitive map

e)

 Prototype

55.

 Wolfgang Kohler considered a chimpanzee sudden solving of a problem evidence of

a)

 Instinct

b)

Modeling

c)

 learning set

d)

 Insight

e)

 spontaneous recovery

56.

 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

a)

 latent learning

b)

 a sensitive period

c)

 cognitive dissonance

d)

 Maslow's hierarchy Of needs

e)

 Egocentrism

57.

 Lewis terman studies of gifted children indicated that

a)

 they often experience psychological problems as adults

b)

 they frequently have difficulty interacting with peers

c)

   they generally demonstrate above average emotional stability and social satisfaction and adulthood

d)

 their intelligence scores continue to increase throughout their lives

e)

 they are more likely than average to have difficulties in marriage or other personal relationships as adults

58.

The utterance likes dog my Swim to,  bad dream does not sound correct because it violates the rules of

a)

 Lexicon

b)

 Prosody

c)

 Syntax

d)

 fast mapping

e)

  Morphemes

59.

 and legal cases Elizabeth Loftus research on the misinformation effect is most often used to cast doubt on which of the following

a)

The knowledge of expert Witnesses

b)

 the Judgment of jurors

c)

 the memory of eyewitnesses

d)

 the impartiality of judges

e)

 the intelligence of attorneys

60.

 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

a)

Procedural and semantic

b)

 procedural and sensory

c)

 semantic and sensory

d)

 episodic and procedural

e)

 episodic and semantic