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Neurocognition MCQ Test 3 full - multiple-
choice questions from the past year.
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____ 1) The gradual conversion of information into durable long-term memory codes is
called
A. long-term potentiation
B. postsynaptic conversion
C. elaboration
D. consolidation
____ 2) The person who has the ability to see all aspects of a problem and make good
decisions is demonstrating the __________ type of intelligence.
A. verbal
B. practical
C. social
D. academic
____ 3) A norm refers to
A. a test's reliability
B. a test's validity
C. a test's distribution of scores
D. all of these things
____ 4) Penfield's studies suggest that long-lost memories can be elicited through
electrical stimulation of the brain. This suggests the possibility that forgetting may be
a matter of
A. retrieval failure
B. displacement
C. gradual decay
D. unconscious wishes to forget
____ 5) The conjunction fallacy is a tendency to
A. ignore information about base rates when estimating the probabilities of certain combinations
of outcomes
B. overestimate the odds of a chance event if that event hasn't occurred recently
C. draw general conclusions based on a few isolated cases
D. believe that the odds of two uncertain events happening together are greater than the odds of
either event happening alone
____ 6) When the word "oat" is changed to the word "boat," the number of
A. phonemes and morphemes are both increased
,B. phonemes stays the same, but the number of morphemes is increased
C. phonemes increases, but the number of morphemes stays the same
D. phonemes decreases, but the number of morphemes increases
____ 7) The child's first words are generally spoken at about what age?
A. 3 to 5 months
B. 6 to 8 months
C. 10 to 13 months
D. 18 to 21 months
____ 8) The fact that the correlation in IQ scores between identical twins reared apart is
lower than that between identical twins reared together suggests that
A. environmental factors can have an influence on intellectual development
B. environmental factors have no impact on intellectual development
C. genetic factors have no impact on intellectual development
D. identical twins often do not have the same genotype
____ 9) The entrance exam that Jaclyn is taking for graduate school has a number of
questions such as: glove is to hand as sock is to __________. Questions of this type
are considered to be
A. problems of arrangement
B. problems of transformation
C. problems of inducing structure
D. ill-defined problems
____ 10) The fact that some people have an organized sequence of memories for driving
their car to work implies the existence of
A. prototypes
B. analogies
C. scripts
D. chained connotations
____ 11) According to Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence, a mnemonic device such
as learning "Every good boy does fine" in order to remember which notes are on the
lines of the treble clef in musical notation represents
A. a metacomponent
B. a knowledge-acquisition component
, C. a performance component
D. an intelligence component
____ 12) Which of the following statements is the most debatable? A.
Intelligence is at least somewhat genetic in origin.
B. Genetic factors are strongly implicated in the cause of ethnic differences in intelligence.
C. The average IQ in the lowest social classes is about 30 to 30 points lower than the average IQ
in the highest social classes.
D. The average IQ for some minority groups in the United States is about 3 to 15 points lower
than the average for whites.
____ 13) Walter is 10 years old and has a mental age of 8, based on the Stanford-Binet
Intelligence Scale. Alfred is 12 and has a mental age of 10, based on the
StanfordBinet Intelligence Scale. Using the intelligence quotient scoring system
suggested by William Stern
A. Walter would be considered "more" intelligent than Alfred
B. Alfred would be considered "more" intelligent than Walter
C. both boys would be considered equally intelligent
D. the scores could not be meaningfully compared because the boys are not the same age
____ 14) If you wanted to be able to predict how successful you would be at being an
engineer, you would take a test that measured your potential for this profession. It is
hoped that the test would be high in
A. criterion-related validity
B. internal validity
C. construction validity
D. hypothetical validity
____ 15) Jacob is thinking of buying a $1 lottery ticket. In Lottery A his odds of winning
are 1 out of a 1000, and he may win $500. In Lottery B his odds of winning are 1 out
of 5000, but he may win $5000. Based on expected value theory, Jacob should
A. buy either ticket because both lotteries have the same expected value
B. buy a ticket from Lottery B because it has a higher expected value
C. buy a ticket from Lottery A because it has a higher expected value
D. not buy either ticket because both lotteries have very low odds of winning
Neurocognition MCQ Test 3 full - multiple-
choice questions from the past year.
,3mw3
____ 1) The gradual conversion of information into durable long-term memory codes is
called
A. long-term potentiation
B. postsynaptic conversion
C. elaboration
D. consolidation
____ 2) The person who has the ability to see all aspects of a problem and make good
decisions is demonstrating the __________ type of intelligence.
A. verbal
B. practical
C. social
D. academic
____ 3) A norm refers to
A. a test's reliability
B. a test's validity
C. a test's distribution of scores
D. all of these things
____ 4) Penfield's studies suggest that long-lost memories can be elicited through
electrical stimulation of the brain. This suggests the possibility that forgetting may be
a matter of
A. retrieval failure
B. displacement
C. gradual decay
D. unconscious wishes to forget
____ 5) The conjunction fallacy is a tendency to
A. ignore information about base rates when estimating the probabilities of certain combinations
of outcomes
B. overestimate the odds of a chance event if that event hasn't occurred recently
C. draw general conclusions based on a few isolated cases
D. believe that the odds of two uncertain events happening together are greater than the odds of
either event happening alone
____ 6) When the word "oat" is changed to the word "boat," the number of
A. phonemes and morphemes are both increased
,B. phonemes stays the same, but the number of morphemes is increased
C. phonemes increases, but the number of morphemes stays the same
D. phonemes decreases, but the number of morphemes increases
____ 7) The child's first words are generally spoken at about what age?
A. 3 to 5 months
B. 6 to 8 months
C. 10 to 13 months
D. 18 to 21 months
____ 8) The fact that the correlation in IQ scores between identical twins reared apart is
lower than that between identical twins reared together suggests that
A. environmental factors can have an influence on intellectual development
B. environmental factors have no impact on intellectual development
C. genetic factors have no impact on intellectual development
D. identical twins often do not have the same genotype
____ 9) The entrance exam that Jaclyn is taking for graduate school has a number of
questions such as: glove is to hand as sock is to __________. Questions of this type
are considered to be
A. problems of arrangement
B. problems of transformation
C. problems of inducing structure
D. ill-defined problems
____ 10) The fact that some people have an organized sequence of memories for driving
their car to work implies the existence of
A. prototypes
B. analogies
C. scripts
D. chained connotations
____ 11) According to Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence, a mnemonic device such
as learning "Every good boy does fine" in order to remember which notes are on the
lines of the treble clef in musical notation represents
A. a metacomponent
B. a knowledge-acquisition component
, C. a performance component
D. an intelligence component
____ 12) Which of the following statements is the most debatable? A.
Intelligence is at least somewhat genetic in origin.
B. Genetic factors are strongly implicated in the cause of ethnic differences in intelligence.
C. The average IQ in the lowest social classes is about 30 to 30 points lower than the average IQ
in the highest social classes.
D. The average IQ for some minority groups in the United States is about 3 to 15 points lower
than the average for whites.
____ 13) Walter is 10 years old and has a mental age of 8, based on the Stanford-Binet
Intelligence Scale. Alfred is 12 and has a mental age of 10, based on the
StanfordBinet Intelligence Scale. Using the intelligence quotient scoring system
suggested by William Stern
A. Walter would be considered "more" intelligent than Alfred
B. Alfred would be considered "more" intelligent than Walter
C. both boys would be considered equally intelligent
D. the scores could not be meaningfully compared because the boys are not the same age
____ 14) If you wanted to be able to predict how successful you would be at being an
engineer, you would take a test that measured your potential for this profession. It is
hoped that the test would be high in
A. criterion-related validity
B. internal validity
C. construction validity
D. hypothetical validity
____ 15) Jacob is thinking of buying a $1 lottery ticket. In Lottery A his odds of winning
are 1 out of a 1000, and he may win $500. In Lottery B his odds of winning are 1 out
of 5000, but he may win $5000. Based on expected value theory, Jacob should
A. buy either ticket because both lotteries have the same expected value
B. buy a ticket from Lottery B because it has a higher expected value
C. buy a ticket from Lottery A because it has a higher expected value
D. not buy either ticket because both lotteries have very low odds of winning
