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Intelligence
Learning
Memory
Language
Motivation
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If Lisa is 20 years old and has a mental age of 30, what is her IQ according to Stern’s formula?
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An operant-conditioning procedure in which successive approximations of a desired response are reinforced.
What is shaping?
100
A memory store that holds a large amount of perceptual information for a very brief time, typically less than 1 second.
What is sensory memory?
100
The smallest unit of language that carries meaning.
What is morpheme?
100
Arousal due to threat is referred to as the " ___ or ____ " response.
What is fight or flight?
200
This term refers to the substantial improvement in intelligence test scores over generations.
What is the Flynn Effect?
200
In a conditioning experiment, a sound is paired with a brief puff of air to the eye of the rabbit. After several pairings, the rabbit ultimately blinks its eye when it hears the sound. ________ serves as the conditioned stimulus, while the _______ served as the unconditioned stimulus.
the sound; puff of air
200
Trying to remember someone’s name whom you met long ago is an example of what type of retrieval?
Recall
200
Noam Chomsky theorized that all human beings are born with this in order to understand and produce language.
What is Language Acquisition Device (LAD)?
200
Sweating to cool the body down is an example of which kind of homeostasis?
Thermoregulation
300
_____________intelligence involves “mental efficiency” or the ability to deal with new problems whereas ___________intelligence involves acquired or fact-based knowledge.
What is fluid; crystallized?
300
David used to play a lot of video games. His girlfriend didn’t like this, and named it as one of the reasons when she decides to break up with him. Because of this, David has learned that playing video games all the time might be a bad idea. What best explains why he stopped playing video games as much?
Operant conditioning
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Molly hears barking, and takes this to mean a dog must be nearby, since she has general knowledge about how dogs sound. What type of memory is responsible for her understanding of this situation?
Semantic memory
300
This area of the brain is responsible for speech production.
What is Broca's area?
300
The set point is specific to which drive?
Hunger
400
The type of intelligence (according to Howard Gardner) that would likely be strongest for an engineer who designs bridges.
What is spatial intelligence?
400
Jim trains Dwight to salivate every time he hears a computer rebooting (the neutral and then conditioned stimulus) by giving him an Altoid (unconditioned stimulus). Then Jim no longer gives Dwight Altoids when he reboots. Dwight eventually stops salivating. This effect is known as ____________. Then Dwight doesn’t hear the reboot for a couple weeks. When he hears it again, he salivates again. This effect is known as ___________.
What is extinction; spontaneous recovery?
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What process will not result in the effective storage of memory traces in long-term memory?
Maintenance rehearsal
400
This theory of meaning posits that the meaning of a word is represented by an ideal example of that word.
What is prototype theory of meaning?
400
When the power went out during hurricane Sandy, Jason began to feel very cold in his apartment and began to shiver. His heart rate increased and his blood vessels contracted. What branch of his nervous system was activated?
Sympathetic
500
In an experiment involving a game, it was observed that European-American students performed worse when the game was described to them as a test of “natural athletic ability”, and African-American students performed worse when the game was described as a test of “sports intelligence”. These observations support the concept of ___________________.
What is stereotype threat?
500
Kevin has a crush on Winnie, and starts texting her frequently. Winnie only texts Kevin when it is in response to a text, but she doesn’t respond to all of the texts, only some. Kevin is on this type of reinforcement schedule.
What is variable ratio?
500
Studies show that greater levels of brain activity during the initial memory acquisition are reliably associated with greater probabilities of recall later on. This is especially true for activity in this part of the brain.
Hippocampus
500
When first learning language, toddlers are particularly adept at using correct grammar and tensing (e.g., the past tense of run is ran). However, this phenomenon demonstrates that later on when they start to explicitly learn these grammatical rules, they actually start to make more mistakes (e.g. the past tense of run is ranned).
What is overregularization?
500
With regard to learning psychology, a _____ orientation is more likely to lead to ______ motivation while a _______ orientation is more likely to lead to _______ motivation.
What is Mastery, intrinsic, performance, extrinsic.