PSY FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 1ST PART UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Memory
Answer:
The ability to store and retrieve information over time.
Question:
2. Explicit memory
Answer:
requires conscious awareness
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3. Implicit memory
Answer:
does not require conscious awareness
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4. Recall memory
Answer:
involves bringing previously learned material from memory
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5. working memory
Answer:
the processes we use to make sense of, modify, interpret, and store information in STM
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6. Procedural memory
Answer:
motor and cognitive skills
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7. Short term memory
Answer:
the place where small amounts of information can be kept for 20-30 seconds
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8. Cognition
Answer:
the processes of acquiring and using knowledge
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9. Chunking
Answer:
organizing items into groupings
, Question:
10. Retrieval
Answer:
process of reactivating information that has been stored in memory.
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11. Encoded
Answer:
processing new information in ways that make it more meaningful or relevant
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12. Availability heuristic
Answer:
The tendency to make judgments concerning an event's frequency or likelihood on the basis of the
ease with which the event can be retrieved from memory
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13. Representativeness heuristic
Answer:
We base judgments on information that seems to match our expectations, and ignore potentially more
relevant statistical information.
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14. Intelligence
Answer:
the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills
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15. Emotional Intelligence
Answer:
The ability to accurately identify, assess, and understand emotions, as well as to control one's
emotions
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16. Eugenics
Answer:
- the proposal that one can improve the human species by permmitting the reproduction of only those
people with genetic characteristics judged desirable
- popular in the U.S. early in the 20th century
Question:
17. Stereotype threat
Answer:
- performance decrements caused by the knowlege of cultural stereotypes
- test situations may activate negative stereotypes among targeted groups, draining cognitive capacity
and creating anxiety. In turn, performance is impaired.
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Memory
Answer:
The ability to store and retrieve information over time.
Question:
2. Explicit memory
Answer:
requires conscious awareness
Question:
3. Implicit memory
Answer:
does not require conscious awareness
Question:
4. Recall memory
Answer:
involves bringing previously learned material from memory
Question:
5. working memory
Answer:
the processes we use to make sense of, modify, interpret, and store information in STM
Question:
6. Procedural memory
Answer:
motor and cognitive skills
Question:
7. Short term memory
Answer:
the place where small amounts of information can be kept for 20-30 seconds
Question:
8. Cognition
Answer:
the processes of acquiring and using knowledge
Question:
9. Chunking
Answer:
organizing items into groupings
, Question:
10. Retrieval
Answer:
process of reactivating information that has been stored in memory.
Question:
11. Encoded
Answer:
processing new information in ways that make it more meaningful or relevant
Question:
12. Availability heuristic
Answer:
The tendency to make judgments concerning an event's frequency or likelihood on the basis of the
ease with which the event can be retrieved from memory
Question:
13. Representativeness heuristic
Answer:
We base judgments on information that seems to match our expectations, and ignore potentially more
relevant statistical information.
Question:
14. Intelligence
Answer:
the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills
Question:
15. Emotional Intelligence
Answer:
The ability to accurately identify, assess, and understand emotions, as well as to control one's
emotions
Question:
16. Eugenics
Answer:
- the proposal that one can improve the human species by permmitting the reproduction of only those
people with genetic characteristics judged desirable
- popular in the U.S. early in the 20th century
Question:
17. Stereotype threat
Answer:
- performance decrements caused by the knowlege of cultural stereotypes
- test situations may activate negative stereotypes among targeted groups, draining cognitive capacity
and creating anxiety. In turn, performance is impaired.
