Students beginning a new topic of study are asked to think of all the different things
they already know about this topic. A map soon is sketched on the board that
categorizes and links ideas they've suggested. This technique is called
a. interference reduction
b. guided questioning
c. knowledge activation
d. retroactive interference
Ques. 2What was it about Tolman's mice that seemed to be a challenge to behaviorist ideas?
a. When facing a T-juncture they always turned right.
b. The seemed to navigate the maze with a goal or purpose.
c. They exhibited decreased intrinsic motivation.
d. They acquired a phobia of Little Albert.
Ques. 3The Flynn effect is the documented rise in IQ scores worldwide over the past century or so.
Which of the following is least likely to be a cause?
a. improved nutrition
b. human genetic evolution
c. the spread of mass media
d. compulsory education
Ques. 4Craik and Lockhart showed that learners who
a. use deep processing recall more than those using shallow processing
b. passively receive material remember more of that material
c. know most about a topic typically learn the least
d. none of the above
Ques. 5Our ability to retrieve information from long term memory depends on the
a. amount of information in long term memory
b. organization of information in long term memory
c. type of information in long term memory
d. size of long term memory
Ques. 6Imagine you lose your car keys and work backwards in memory through the day's
events to find them? In this case, you are searching ___?___ memory.
a. episodic
b. sensory
c. executive
d. semantic
Ques. 7Memory for general declarative knowledge is stored in
a. semantic memory
b. episodic memory
c. short term memory
d. lexical memory
Ques. 8The most representative example of a category is called a
a. template
b. cue
c. chunk
d. prototype
Ques. 9The reinforcement schedule that will produce the most robust behavior is:
a. fixed interval
b. fixed ratio
c. variable interval
d. variable ratio
Ques. 10Which of the following is true about the heritability of intelligence, h2 = 0.5?
a. h2 can help to explain why there are differences in IQ among groups.
b. h2 places limits on IQ change between generations.
c. h2 will be constant across time, place, and culture.
d. h2 predicts variance in IQ attributable to genetics.
Ques. 11Which one of the following units of knowledge is used to describe procedural rather
than declarative knowledge?
a. concepts
b. propositions
c. productions
d. schemata
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