WorksheetsAP Psychology Unit 5 Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Which of the following statements is true of Hermann Ebbinghaus and his research?
He memorized and later recalled hundreds of nonsense syllables to document memory decay.
He studied college students to see if it was easier for them to memorize items presented randomly or in categories.
He studied children over a ten-year period to determine how long information lasts in sensory memory.
He studied monkeys to see how long it would take for them to habituate to a stimulus.
He used imaging techniques to see if the components of short-term memory were reflected in different regions of the brain.
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
members of minority groups may not be accurately assessed by IQ tests
IQ tests should be renormed at periodic intervals
the relatively high reliability coefficients for IQ tests may not be accurate
the tests may not have been valid when they were initially constructed
IQ scores tend not to change over the course of a person’s life
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. When 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
shallow processing
maintenance rehearsal
the pragmatics of language
semantic encoding
Jordan learns a trick to solve one particular type of math problem. He then uses the same trick to solve other types 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 prototype
reversibility
spontaneous recovery
a mental set
Achariya is lost. She quickly scans the crowd and decides to ask an elderly woman for directions because she believes the woman will be kind. Which method of problem solving did Achariya most likely use?
Divergent thinking
The availability heuristic
The representativeness heuristic
An algorithm
Trial and error
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?
Standardization
Statistical significance
Reliability
Validity
Experimenter-expectancy effects
When Lois looks at her wedding pictures, she has vivid memories of the early years of her marriage. The pictures serve as
semantic cues
encoding devices
retrieval cues
implicit memories
iconic memories
According to the information-processing view of memory, the first stage in memory processing involves
rehearsal
transfer
retrieval
encoding
storage
Joe’s best friend Liz says, “I heard the best joke from my sister” and then proceeds to tell Joe the joke that he had told her last week. Liz is most likely experiencing
proactive interference
source amnesia
retrieval failure
encoding failure
retrograde amnesia
Tim can no longer create new memories as a result of an accident. Tim is experiencing which of the following types of amnesia?
Infantile
Source
Anterograde
Retrograde
Dissociative
