WEEK 3 QUIZ

Question 1
2 out of 2 points

A man known as H. M. lost the ability to form new memories after an operation removed portions of his ____________.
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Selected Answer:

hippocampus

Question 2
2 out of 2 points

A mnemonic device is a ________.
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Selected Answer:

strategy that improves memory

Question 3
2 out of 2 points

Adrianna is trying to memorize the names of the bones in the hand. She had gone through a list of them when her phone rang. After she gets off the phone, she is MOST likely to remember the first few bone names because of the ________.
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Selected Answer:

primacy effect

Question 4
2 out of 2 points

In the 1950s, George Miller estimated the number of items that could be stored in short-term memory to be the magic number __________.
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Selected Answer:

7, plus or minus 2

Question 5
2 out of 2 points

In the game show Jeopardy! contestants are tested on general information. The type of memory used to answer these kinds of questions is _________.
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Selected Answer:

semantic

Question 6
2 out of 2 points

Jessica took psychology in the fall semester and is now taking sociology. Several of the concepts are similar, and Jessica finds that she sometimes has trouble recalling some of the major psychological theorists. She keeps getting them confused with sociological theorists. Jessica's problem is most likely due to _______________.
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Selected Answer:

retroactive interference

Question 7
2 out of 2 points

Maria finds that it is easier to remember her student ID number if she thinks of it in segments, such as the first three digits, then the next two, and then the final four. Each of these short segments of the number are called ________.
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Selected Answer:

chunks

Question 8
2 out of 2 points

Recalling the definition of long-term memory is an example of ________.
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Selected Answer:

semantic memory

Question 9
2 out of 2 points

What did Hermann Ebbinghaus discover with the forgetting curve?
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Selected Answer:

Most forgetting occurs soon after learning.

Question 10
2 out of 2 points

Your textbook suggests remembering someone's name by visualizing some activity between that new person and someone you already know with that name. This illustrates how________ can improve memory.
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Selected Answer:

interactive images

Question 11
2 out of 2 points

Your memory for the moment you heard about the planes crashing into New York's Twin Towers would be most appropriately termed a(n) ________ memory.
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Selected Answer:

flashbulb

Question 12
2 out of 2 points

Micah is trying to remember the specific route he took to the library the night before. What part of working memory is he accessing?
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Selected Answer:

the visuospatial sketch pad

Question 13
0 out of 2 points

Memories for general facts and personal information are called _________.
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Selected Answer:

episodic memory
CORRECT IS DECLARATIVE MEMORIES

Question 14
2 out of 2 points

Alfred Binet designed the first ______ test.
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Selected Answer:

intelligence

Question 15
0 out of 2 points

Assuming that a series of coin tosses is random because the ratio of heads and tails look randomly distributed is an example of ________.
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Selected Answer:

base-rate rule

Question 16
2 out of 2 points

Coming up with as many different uses of a brick as possible, such as using them for doorstops, is a type of ________ thinking.
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Selected Answer:

divergent

Question 17
2 out of 2 points

Dallas is a 10-year-old boy who has a mental age of 10 years. His IQ would be ___________.
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Selected Answer:

100

Question 18
2 out of 2 points

For a person to be considered "gifted," his or her IQ score is usually considered to be at least ________.
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Selected Answer:

145

Question 19
0 out of 2 points

If you took the WAIS-IV when you were 18 and again when you were 25, and the scores were the same, what could you conclude?
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Selected Answer:

that your IQ has decreased

Question 20
2 out of 2 points

Lewis Terman and his colleagues revised the Binet-Simon test. The new test was called the ________.
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Selected Answer:

Stanford-Binet

Question 21
2 out of 2 points

Mental images are internal representations similar to images that arise during perception, except that mental images are based on ________.
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Selected Answer:

stored information rather than on immediate sensory input

Question 22
2 out of 2 points

Wug is a Martian and all Martians are green. Therefore, Wug is green. This is an example of ________ logic.
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Selected Answer:

deductive

Question 23
2 out of 2 points

Riley has figured out how to unlock his bedroom door with a paper clip. What has he most likely overcome in his new use of the paper clip?
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Selected Answer:

functional fixedness

Question 24
2 out of 2 points

The American Association for Mental Retardation specifies two criteria in addition to the IQ criterion for mental retardation, which are ________.
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Selected Answer:

significant limitations and the presence of the condition since childbirth

Question 25
2 out of 2 points

The ability to understand the world, think rationally or logically, and use resources effectively when faced with challenges or problems are all factors that would be related to the definition of ____________.
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Selected Answer:

intelligence