In 1953 HM was lobotomized and ended up with severe memory loss. What condition was his doctors trying to cure
What are seizures
An average IQ score
What is 100
Auditory sensory memory is also called
What is echoic memory
Sally remembers loosing her first tooth when she took a bite of an apple this is an example of
What is episodic memory
How consistently an individual will score on the same test on subsequent occasions is an example of
What is the measure of reliability
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
The degree to which material on the test is balanced and is measuring what it is said to measure
What is validity
Visual sensory memory is referred to as
What is iconic memory
The greater likelihood of recalling information from memory while in the same or similar environment where the memory was originally encoded
What is state dependent or context-dependent memory
The question "What is a chair?" demonstrates the concept of
What is a prototype
In elementary school, Lisa learned to speak some Japanese in addition to English. As a sophomore in high school, Lisa took a class in Chinese. She found that some of the new vocabulary was difficult to learn because her earlier Japanese vocabulary was competing with the new Chinese words. This situation best illustrates
What is proactive interference
The thematic Apperception Test (TAT) is a well-known test that involves a series of pictures of people in ambiguous relationships with other people ad the respondent's task is to generate a story for each picture this is an of what type of test
What is a projective test
The following is an example of
What is closure
Recalling the fact that Abraham Lincoln was the president of the US during the Civil War is an example of
What is semantic memory (meaning making memories)
Students are given a task in which they are asked to come up with as many ways as possible to use a spoon that does not involve food. This is an example of
What is divergent thinking
During English class, Caleb is worried about an unfinished history project he needs to turn in later in the day. While the English teacher and other students discuss a short story the class just read, Caleb’s attention is focused on how to finish the history project. The next day he is unable to recall the short story details presented in English class. The recall problem is most likely due to
What is encoding failure
On a normal distribution, an IQ score of 85 would be located
What is approximately one standard deviation below the mean
Tendency to see objects as a whole rather than individual parts.
What is Gestalt psychology
Sheldon memorizes the number for pi by piece the information into sets of 4 this is an example of
What is chunking
Kelly creates a perfect mental image of a rose in her mind and uses it to judge the roses she encounters
What is representative heuristic
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
What is source amnesia
Environmental, Mathematical, Spatial, and Musical are apart of what theory of intelligence
what is Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Ben continues to get stuck on a physics problem, approaching it the same way every time. This is an example of
What is a mental set
Trivial Pursuit a board game that asks for answers to questions about random facts, relies most heavily on which form of knowledge?
What is crystallized intelligence
Used to set the norms for a given population of subjects
What is test standardization