AP Psychology Unit 5 pt2

Which of the following psychologists is most strongly associated with research on false memories?

Elizabeth Loftus

Janice cleaned out the office refrigerator without being asked. The operant conditioning concept of positive reinforcement is illustrated in which scenario?

The next day, her boss gave her a gift certificate to a local coffee shop. As a result, Janice now regularly cleans out the office refrigerator.

Dr. Rudolph’s class has a big test coming up next week. Which of the following students is using a studying strategy that is most likely to lead to memory consolidation?

Elizabeth studies for a half hour before she goes to beed each night the week before the exam

Which of the following is an example of the tip-of-the-tongue effect?

Emma is telling her friend…

Carlos wants to lose weight

reward himself immediately after going to the gym

Which of the following scenarios is an example of retroactive interference?

Carl tries to remember the name of his first boss, but he cannot because he keeps thinking of the name of his current boss.

Which of the following scenarios best demonstrates the acquisition of a fear of snakes?

Randolph's brother frequently startled Randolph whenever he approached a snake, which caused Randolph to develop an intense fear of them.

Which of the following activities most directly relies on the hippocampus?

Memorizing the layout of a neighborhood

In which scenario does sunblock serve as a conditioned stimulus?

Lowell feels relaxed when he smells sunblock because it reminds him of his vacations at the beach.

Which of the following is true of analogies in supporting problem solving?

Relevant analogies usually help people solve problems, but people often do not spontaneously think of relevant analogies

Creativity is most closely associated with which of the following?

Divergent thinking

Which of the following statements is true of insight problem solving?

It involves trying every possible solution until finding the one that works.

Maeve wants to change her college major but has decided not to because she is close to finishing. She believes that the time she spent in her current program will be wasted if she changes now. Maeve is experiencing

Sunk cost fallacy

Piper reads about someone described as adventurous and extroverted.

the representativeness heuristic

Martine needs a hammer but cannot find one

Functional fixedness

Average IQ scores have increased steadily over the past 100 years. It has been argued that this effect is most likely due to

an increased in the average number of years in school

Ms. Reagen, who is a teacher, agrees more with Howard Gardner’s theory of intelligence than Charles Spearman’s theory of intelligence. Which of the following scenarios would she most agree with?

Ms. Reagan thinks that her students exhibit more than one type of intelligence. For example, she notices her student Noel plays well with others as well as alone.

Martin has been heavily influenced by the work of Lewis Terman. Which of the following perspectives on intelligence would Martin most likely have?

Intelligence is primarily a biologically based capacity

Graph

The distribution is positively skewed

Dr. Porter is studying the effectiveness of 2 intervention programs to improve the outcomes of children who have Ean intellectual disability. Which of the following groups of children should see include in the study?

Children who have an IQ between 50 and 69

A psychologist has just developed a new test that he hopes will be a good measure of intelligence. At the surface level, the questions appear to be the types of puzzles and problems that would prove an intellectual challenge and give insight into someone’s intellectual abilities. Unfortunately, when he distributes the test to a classroom of college students, it does not appear to perform similarly to existing measures of intelligence. The test does not predict student GPAs and in fact is better at predicting performance on a measure of anxiety than intelligence. Which of the following characteristics does the new intelligence test possess?

Face validity, because the test looks like it should measure intelligence.

Five-year-old Tahani

Because Tahani speaks more than one language, her proficiency in each language may come later than for her monolingual peers.

Maki is a three-month-old living in a household of Japanese speakers. Which of the following best describes how her ability to discriminate phonemes will develop?

Currently, she will likely be able to discriminate the phonemes \\l\\ and \\r\\; after she reaches about eight months of age, she will have begun to lose the ability to discriminate these phonemes.

According to Noam Chomsky, understanding a sentence involves which of the following transformations between structures?

surface to deep