PSY 357 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS COMPLETE REVIEW MATERIAL
●● Deductive reasoning
Answer: drawing conclusions from facts; characteristic of formal-
operational thought
●● Working memory
Answer: type of memory in which a small number of items can be stored
briefly
●● Long-term memory
Answer: permanent storehouse for memories that has unlimited capacity
●● Organization
Answer: as applied to children's memory, a strategy in which
information to be remembered is structured so that related information is
placed together
●● Cognitive self-regulation
Answer: skill at identifying goals, selecting effective strategies, and
monitoring accurately; a characteristic of successful students
, ●● Emotional intelligence
Answer: ability to use one's own and others' emotions effectively for
solving problems and living happily
●● Analytic ability
Answer: in Sternberg's theory of intelligence, the ability to analyze
problems and generate different solutions
●● Creative ability
Answer: in Sternberg's theory of intelligence, the ability to deal
adaptively with novel situations and problems
●● Practical ability
Answer: in Sternberg's theory of intelligence, the ability to know which
problem solutions are likely to work
●● Mental age
Answer: in intelligence testing, a measure of children's performance
corresponding to the chronological age of those whose performance
equals the child's
●● Intelligence quotient
Answer: mathematical representation of how a person scores on an
intelligence test in relation to how other people of the same age score
SOLUTIONS COMPLETE REVIEW MATERIAL
●● Deductive reasoning
Answer: drawing conclusions from facts; characteristic of formal-
operational thought
●● Working memory
Answer: type of memory in which a small number of items can be stored
briefly
●● Long-term memory
Answer: permanent storehouse for memories that has unlimited capacity
●● Organization
Answer: as applied to children's memory, a strategy in which
information to be remembered is structured so that related information is
placed together
●● Cognitive self-regulation
Answer: skill at identifying goals, selecting effective strategies, and
monitoring accurately; a characteristic of successful students
, ●● Emotional intelligence
Answer: ability to use one's own and others' emotions effectively for
solving problems and living happily
●● Analytic ability
Answer: in Sternberg's theory of intelligence, the ability to analyze
problems and generate different solutions
●● Creative ability
Answer: in Sternberg's theory of intelligence, the ability to deal
adaptively with novel situations and problems
●● Practical ability
Answer: in Sternberg's theory of intelligence, the ability to know which
problem solutions are likely to work
●● Mental age
Answer: in intelligence testing, a measure of children's performance
corresponding to the chronological age of those whose performance
equals the child's
●● Intelligence quotient
Answer: mathematical representation of how a person scores on an
intelligence test in relation to how other people of the same age score
