Mini Quiz Questions #3

Words, images, and other bits of information used to access a stored memory are called

stress hormonespromote stronger memories by

sherry easily remembers the telephone reservation number for Holiday Inn by using the mnemonic; 1-800-HOLIDAYS using a memory aid known as

some information in our fleeting _____ is encoding into short-term memory

We are more likely to recall adjectives if asked how well they describe us than if how wll they descibe someone else. This illustrates

When Quang couldn't find his wallet, he began to wonder about his roommate's honesty. Although Quang later recall that he had left his wallet, in the glove compartment of his car, he continued to doubt his roommate's honesty Quang's irrational thinking best illustrates

To combine words into grammatically sensible sentences, we need to apply proper rules of

The best evidence that there is a critical period for language acquisition is the fact that

As he attempted to spell the world receive, Tim reminded himself "i before except after" Tim's self-reminder best illustrates the use of

The inability to see a problem from a new perspective is called

Sarah loves to listen to New Age music and faithfully reads her horoscope each day.In her spare time, she enjoys aromatherapy and attending a local spirituality group. Based on the representativness heuristic people are more likely to predict that sarah is a

Noticing his heart pounding and that his palms were sweaty when an attracive person asked him to dance. Harley concluded that he was "falling in love" the differing emotions experienced by harley can best be explained by the

Women scoring in the highest 25 percent on the Scottish national intelligence test age 11 tended to _____ than those who scored in the lowest 25 percent

twenty five year old alexandria has an intillectual disability and can neither read nor write. However, after hearing a legthy unfamiliar, and complex musical selections just once. She can reproduce them precisely on the piano. It is likely that alexandria is

Which of the folowing people best illustrates Sternberg's concept of practical intelligence

Aptitude tests are to _____ as achievement test are to______

Which of the following people best illustrates Sternberg's concept of practivle intelligence

Morphemes are

The various vowel sounds that can be placed between a "t" and an "n" produce words such as tan,ten, tin, and ton. These various vowel sounds represent differentt

The part of the cerebral cortex that directs the muscle movements involved in speech is known as

The risk of smoking are more alarming when presented in terms of the number of sokers with lung cancer than the percentage of smokers with lung cancer. This illustrates the importance of

Buisness managers are often confidence of their own hiring ability because theya re more likely to monitor the successes of people they hired than the achievements of those they rejected. This illustrates that overconfidence may be facilitated by

To a child, "you follow me" and "Me follow you" communicate different ideas. A chimpanzee well trained in sign language might use the same sequence of signs for both phrases becuase it is incapabile of

The idea that an emotion-arousing stimulus is simutaneously routed to the cortex and to the sympathetic nervous system is central to the

Paul insists that the sight of guna always leads him to experienc the same intense level of fear regardless of whether he is physically aroused or physicaly calm. Paul's reported experience is most consistent with

According to the James-Lange theory we experience emotion _____ we notice our physiological arousal. According to the Cannon-BArd theory we experience emotion___ we become physiologically aroused

For a moment after hearing his dog's high-pitched bark. Mr silver had a vivid auditory impression of the dog's yelp. His experience most clearly illustrates ____ memory

Ebbinghaus use of nonsense syllables to study memory led to discovery that

Damage to the hippocampus would most likely interfere with a person's ability to learn

Many of the experiment participants who were asked how fast two cars in a filmed traffic, accident were going when they smashed into each other subsequently recalled seeing broken glass at the scene of the accident. This experiment best illustrated

automatic processing most clearly accors without

Jeremy can accurately process and store new information, but when he is tested on what he has learned he becomes so anxious that he can't easily recall the new information. Jermy most clearly demonnstrates diffculty with

To find out her new spatial reasoning test is good at measuring what it was designed to measure. Dr. Chu compares the scores on her test with the scores and grades of college students enrolled in courses that involve spacial reasoning. in tis instance, Dr. Chu is in the process of