Learning
Memory
Psychology Tests
IQ
Miscellaneous
100
______________ views the organism as active in the environment – this interaction with the environment leads to pairings (accidental or not) between the organism’s actions and behavior and the resulting events and consequences
What is operant conditioning.
100
Includes everything you’ve learned over the course of your life, your general knowledge about the world; it’s the storage of all information
What is long-term memory?
100
A _________ is a standardized measure created to look at the range of variability and measure individual differences; for example, there is some characteristic that we are capturing when we give out these tests (intelligence, happiness, depression, anxiety, etc.)
What is psychological test?
100
What does IQ stand for?
What is intelligent quotient?
100
Your TA's name.
What is Tara?
200
________ makes a behavior more likely to occur, while ________ makes a behavior less likely to occur.
What is reinforcement and punishment?
200
How long does short-term memory last?
What is 15-20 seconds?
200
_______ measure your potential in a certain domain – how likely are you to succeed in a certain area (e.g. the SAT and the ACT – measure your potential for success in college)
What is aptitude tests?
200
What is the average IQ for humans?
What is 100?
200
True or False - Maintenance rehearsal does not produce storage in long term memory.
What is true?
300
You experience a bad stimulus and will escape from the stimulus
What is escape conditioning
300
What type of rehearsal involves taking the information you are trying to remember and elaborating on it?
What is elaborative rehearsal?
300
Has to do with whether the tests give out similar scores over time and in the presence of sampling errors – how stable the test is over time.
What is reliability?
300
True or False - IQ and Personality are products of both nature and nurture.
What is true?
300
Who opened the door to memory research relating to eye witness testimony and coined the termed "false memories?"
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
400
This occurs when an animal is repeatedly subjected to an aversive stimulus that it cannot escape
What is learned helplessness?
400
How many units of information can short-term memory hold?
What is 7 (+ or -) 2 units of information?
400
What type of validity must an achievement test have?
What is content validity?
400
How do you separate the genetic effects and environment effects on IQ?
What is twin studies?
400
___________ is an estimate of variance of a specific characteristic or trait that can be accounted by genetic differences.
What is heritability ratio?
500
The best schedule for reinforcement is ________, whereas the best schedule for punishment is________.
What is intermittent and continuous?
500
Information that you use to probe memory in order to retrieve or access information that is already in your memory.
What is a retrieval cue?
500
________ pertains to whether or not the test is measuring what the test is supposed to measure.
What is validity?
500
The study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits.
What is Eugenics?
500
_________ are tests created to measure theorized constructs that we think are different from person to person (e.g. the IQ test)
What is tests of hypothetical constructs?
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