Unit 2: Learning, Memory and Intelligence

Learnig

Memory

Memory 2

Intelligence

Intelligence 2

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Who is the father of classical conditioning and what experiment did he conduct?

Iva Pavlov

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What is the difference between iconic memory and echoic memory?

Iconic is visual memory, and echoic is auditory.

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You sadly suffered from a stroke and now have a hard time remembering. What type of amnesia are you suffering from?

retrograde amnesia

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what is the Wecshler Intelligence Scales

it is an intelligence test that can be given to children 6-16 and adults 18-90. This test is taken individually and last between 60-90 min

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What type of distribution is this?

normal distribution

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Think of classical conditioning, A feather is tickling your nose and causes you to sneeze. What type of stimulus is the feather, and what response did you display?

Unconditioned stimulus and response

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7152331475 is the same as 715-233-1475

this is an example of what memory technique and is it short-term or long-term?

chunking

short term

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Who is Clive Wearing?

Clive Wearing suffered from encephalitis that is cased by herpes and can now only remember 7-30 seconds at a time.

He has both retrograde and anterograde amnesia

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Give an example of Stereotype threat

White men perform worse on math tests when they think they are competing with Asians. (Aronson et al., 1999)
Female chess players perform worse than male chess players when they are aware that they are playing against a male opponent. When they are (falsely) led to believe that they are playing against another woman, they perform just as well as the male players. (Maass, D'Etolle, & Cadinu, 2008) -- from Tracy Chou's answer for Why are men better at chess than women (at the GM level and all other levels)?

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You constantly check your wait and you realize that your scale is consistent with your actual weight.

is this an example of...

a. reliability

b. validity

c. standardization

a. reliability

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Your child was late coming home and as a punishment you deiced to take away his keys.What type of punishment is this?

Negative Punishment

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Our parents witnessed 9/11, it was a horrifying experience one in which they remember every detail of. This is example of______memory

Flashbulb memory

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one => Bun

two => Shoe

three=> Tree

four=>door

What method is this an example of?

Peg-word method

Peg is the hook or stilt to help you to remember a word. You see this a lot in nursery rhymes, poems and stories

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You are taking a test, and you begin to wonder if these questions on the test are underlying the theoretical concepts you learned in class.

are you looking for...

a. reliability

b. validity

c. standardization

b. validity

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What is the difference between achievement test and aptitude test?

The main difference between aptitude tests and achievement tests is that aptitude tests discard previous formation, while achievement tests assess previous knowledge. That's why achievement tests are confined to a specific subject or area of knowledge and are usually applied when a grade or level of study has finished

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Explain John Watson and Little Albert experiment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt0ucxOrPQE

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What is memory encoding and what are the tree main ways can information be encoded.

Encoding is the process in which one takes in information and the mind process it for understanding and stores it for latter.

the three main ways to encode information is

1. visual 2. acoustics 3. Semantic

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Explain the work of Elizabeth Loftus on Eyewitness Testimony

https://www.simplypsychology.org/eyewitness-testimony.html

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