Cognition
Mental representations of categories of items or ideas, based on experience. These are building blocks of thinking because they enable us to organize our knowledge.
What are concepts?
Professor Sanchez is interested in studying the development of motor skills. She collects data from 200, one-year-olds and follows and assesses them for a period of six years. What type of research design is Professor Sanchez using?
a.cohort design
b.longitudinal design
c.behavior genetics design
d.cross-sectional design
Who is B longitudinal?
The ________ theory of emotion states that the experience of emotion occurs simultaneously with biological changes.
a.Cannon-Bard
b.James-Lange
c.Plutchik
d.Schachter-Singer
What is A Cannon-Bard?
The idea that objects still exist even when out of sight.
What is object permanence?
The spread of a characteristic throughout a population.
What is a Normal Distribution/Bell-Shaped Curve?
What are the smallest units of meaning in a language?
a.words
b.syntax
c.phonemes
d.morphemes
What is D morphemes?
The scientific study of the changes that occur in people as they age from conception to death is called ________.
a.abnormal psychology
b.gerontology
c.human development
d.maturational studies
What is C human development?
According to Maslow, the needs that are biological in nature and consist of oxygen, food, water, and a constant body temperature.
What are physiological needs?
Piaget's theory of development where children (2-7) began to use language and think symbolically but their thinking is still intuitive and egocentric.
What is the preoperational stage?
Dallas is a 10-year-old boy who has a mental age of 10 years. His IQ would be ________.
a.80
b.100
c.115
d.130
What is B 100 MA/CA * 100?
Sally is enrolled in a high school geometry course, which she describes as "drawing figures and figuring drawings." In a typical class, students draw geometric figures and use a formula to calculate an aspect of the figure, such as its area. Each time Sally uses a formula, she is making use of what psychologists call ________.
a.heuristics
b.logarithms
c.algorithms
d.convergence
What is C an algorithm?
Parents who enforce rigid rules and demand strict obedience to authority.
What is an authoritarian parent?
A view that a biological need produces a drive, which is a state of tension or energy that moves an organism to meet the need.
What is the drive reduction theory?
Aaron is a middle-aged physician. He gives back to the community by acting as a mentor to teenagers interested in entering the medical profession. Erikson would say that Aaron is experiencing ________.
a.intimacy
b.identity
c.generativity
d.integrity
What is c generativity?
According to Robert Sternberg, ________ intelligence is the ability to deal with new and different concepts and to come up with new ways of solving problems (divergent thinking, in other words).
a.analytical
b.creative
c.practical
d.existential
What is B creative intelligence?
A loose screw on the visor causes it to drop down while Ben drives; however, he keeps forgetting to take a screwdriver out to the car to fix it. When he notices the visor drop again, he reaches into his pocket for a dime he uses to tighten the screw holding the visor. What problem-solving difficulty did Ben overcome?
a.relative comparison
b.functional fixedness
c.poor problem representation
d.the representative heuristic
What is B functional fixedness?
When present, the gene's feature will appear each time.
What is a dominant gene?
Jack, compared to most other people, appears to need a high level of arousal. He enjoys doing potentially life-threatening hobbies such as skydiving, swimming with sharks, and bungee jumping from bridges. Jack is likely to be ________.
a.a show off
b.mentally unstable
c.a sensation seeker
d.unhealthy
What is C a sensation seeker?
Saul believes in the Golden Rule and desperately wants people to view him as a good person. Most likely, he is in which level of moral development?
a.convergent
b.postconventional
c.conventional
d.preconventional
What is C conventional stage?
A cognitive theory of intelligence that proposes many different intelligence such as logical-mathematical, musical, interpersonal, etc.
What is Gardner's Theory of Intelligence?
The system of rules that governs how we combine words to form grammatical sentences is called ________.
a.syntax
b.semantics
c.morphology
d.phonology
What is A syntax?
A type of temperament in which the child is moody, intense, and easily angered.
What is a difficult temperament?
Michael has trained very long hours in order to qualify for the Olympics in diving. He has sacrificed a great deal as he put his education on hold and spent a lot of time away from his wife and two small children. To Michael, qualifying for the Olympics is a(n) ________.
a.instinctual drive
b.incentive
c.innate goal
d.optimum goal
What is B incentive?
Leticia has just learned that she is terminally ill. She is now always irritable, often throws things on the floor, and yells at members of her family and the nurses who care for her. According to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Leticia is most likely in the _______ stage of dying.
a.anger
b.bargaining
c.denial
d.reactive
What is A anger?
The type of intelligence that is the ability to cope with people and events in the environment "street smarts."
What is practical intelligence?