Building Memories
Retrieval Cues & Forgetting
Language
Intelligence
Important Psychologists
100
Which part of the brain is involved in motor learning
What is the cerebellum
100
In the morning, Jorge watched a cartoon about a sarcastic rabbit. Later, in his psychology class, he viewed the image above and readily identified it as a rabbit instead of a duck. The retrieval cue that best explains this phenomena is
What is priming
100
All human languages have several basic sounds in common called
What are phonemes
100
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 intelligence score of 120 would have a chronological age of
What is 10
100
A student who only studies the night before a test will very rapidly forget most of the information studied after the test is over is a concept studied by which important memory psychologist?
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus and the forgetting curve
200
An individual’s ability to remember the day he or she first swam the length of a swimming pool is most clearly an example of which of the following kinds of memory?
What is episodic memory
200
This graph shows what concept of forgetting?
What is the serial position effect
200
According to the example of Genie, this case study revealed the importance of what in learning language?
What is a critical period
200
The component of intelligence described by Raymond Cattell as involving the ability to understand logical relationships, reason abstractly, and learn quickly is related to which of the following?
What is fluid intelligence
200
Which psychologist is most strongly associated with research on false memories?
Who is Elizabeth Loftus
300
Remembering the day schools closed in 2020, or remembering 9/11 vividly is an example of what type of memory?
What is flashbulb memory
300
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 words they had memorized previously. The results of the experiment, summarized in the chart above, best illustrate which psychological concept?
What is mood-congruent memory or state-dependent memory?
300
An example of a prelinguistic event in the stages of language development is
What is the babbling stage
300
Average IQ scores have increased steadily over the past 100 years. It has been argued that this effect is most likely due to
What is the Flynn Effect
300
A club president devises a way to publicize important upcoming events would be an example of which one of Robert Sternberg's PAC theory of intelligence
What is practical
400
A man sustains a 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 aspect is dysfunctional, respectively?
What is procedural and semantic
400
A teacher has to learn 170 new student names every year and finds it difficult to remember the names of former students. The teacher’s memory problem most likely results from
What is retroactive interference
400
When the word “walk” is changed to “walked,” the suffix “ed” is an example of a
What is a morpheme
400
The type of intelligence that Howard Gardner described as individuals’ abilities to understand themselves and to be aware of their talents and limitations is
What is intrapersonal
400
Language shapes the way an individual thinks and interprets experiences was studied by this psychologist
Who is Benjamin Lee Whorf
500
In a memory study, the experimenter reads the same list of words to two groups. She asks group A to count the letters in each word, and she asks group B to focus on the meaning of each word for a later memory quiz. During a recall test, participants in group B recall significantly more words than participants in group A. Memory researchers attribute this effect to differences in
What is levels of processing
500
Tim can no longer create new memories as a result of an accident. Tim is experiencing
What is anterograde amnesia
500
A young child says, “Where did you goed?” Which linguistic psychologists would most likely argue that the child is overregularizing a logical grammatical rule?
Who is Noam Chomsky
500
Henry took an intelligence test and scored lower than he thought he should. He kept retaking the test, but he kept getting about the same score each time. This series of events indicates that the test was
What is reliable
500
The belief that a single, underlying intellectual capacity can be measured by intelligence tests is the conclusion of which psychologist
Who is Charles Spearman