AP psych unit 5 exam

• If approached on the street by a stranger and asked to make a guess about their IQ score, your best guess would be

  100
• If the scores on an intelligence test form a normal curve with a standard deviation of 15,


  the first and second choices only are true.
• The original formula for a child's intelligence quotient compared a child's

  mental age to his or her chronological age.
• The purpose of Alfred Binet's early intelligence test was to


  predict how children would do in school.
• Students who do well on college entrance exams generally do well in their first year of college. This helps establish that these exams have

  predictive validity.
• The most widely used modern intelligence test was developed by


  David Wechsler.
• Heritability of intelligence refers to


  the amount of group variation in intelligence that can be attributed to genetics.
• If Lanie is able to tell when her husband is upset by noticing subtle changes in his facial expressions, she might be said to have a high degree of


  emotional intelligence.
• The Flynn effect refers to the


  gradual increase in average intelligence score of the general population over the last several decades.
• Researchers studying the effects of genes on intelligence have found that

  intelligence is affected by many genes working together.
• Which of the following is one of Robert Sternberg's types of intelligence?


  Practical intelligence
• Howard Gardner found evidence of multiple intelligences in individuals who scored low on intelligence but had an area of exceptional ability—for example, to make complex calculations. These people have


  savant syndrome.
• Achievement tests are to aptitude tests as


  measurement is to prediction
• What is the benefit of standardizing an intelligence test?

  To provide a basis for comparing scores against a pretested group
• What would be true of a thermometer that always reads three degrees lower than the actual temperature?

  It is reliable but not valid.
• Which of the following individuals would best represent our understanding of fluid versus crystallized intelligence?


  Alice is 25 and has discovered a new chemical element.
• Charles Spearman's g refers to


  general intelligence.
• People are said to have an intellectual disability if they have difficulty adapting to the demands of independent living and have IQ scores below


  70
• According to Noam Chomsky, language acquisition occurs most especially because of

  linguistic determinism.
• Benjamin Lee Whorf's linguistic determinism hypothesis relates to what aspect of the power of language?


  How language determines thinking
• Which of the following demonstrates the representativeness heuristic?

  Deciding that a new kid in school is a nerd because he looks like a nerd
• Which of the following is not one of Robert Sternberg's components of creativity?

  Incubation
• Alice significantly underestimated how long it would take to write her term paper because of

  overconfidence.
• A phoneme, such as the "c" in cows, is best described as a

  unit of sound in a language.
• Scott gets soaked in the rainstorm because he does not think of using his backpack to shield himself from the rain. Which barrier to problem solving is evidenced here?

  Fixation
• Mave got a new car with the license plate "MAVNUM1." She is asked by the school parking clerk what her number is but can only remember her old one, "VANMOM1." Her inability to remember her new plate is most likely due to


  proactive interference.
• Which of the following illustrates a heuristic?

  Using three dramatic news reports of corporate fraud to estimate how often business fraud occurs
• People are more concerned about a medical procedure when told it has a 10 percent death rate than they are when told it has a 90 percent survival rate. Which psychological concept explains this difference in concern?

  Framing
• When asked to think of a "desk," many students think of the desks in their classroom rather than a large desk used by an executive. This illustrates that their school desks have formed their ________ of a desk.

  prototype
• Hermann Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve shows that


  most forgetting occurs early on and then levels off.
• Which of the following is an example of source amnesia?

  Stephen misremembers a dream as something that really happened.
• Carl damaged his cerebellum in a car accident. As a result, he would have the most trouble remembering


  how to ride his therapy bike.
• You are more likely to remember happy memories when you are presently happy than when you are sad due to

  mood congruence.
• By waiting until the last minute to study for an exam, you are using an unrecommended strategy called

  massed practice.
• Which of the following illustrates the serial position effect?

  Alp is unable to remember the middle of a list of vocabulary words as well as he remembers the first or last words on the list.
• Research on the role of the amygdala in memory has found that

  the amygdala help make sure we remember events that trigger strong emotional responses.
• When someone provides his phone number to another person, he usually pauses after the area code and again after the next three numbers. This pattern underscores the importance of which memory principle?


  Chunking
• The basketball players could remember the main points of their coach's halftime talk, but not her exact words. This is because they encoded the information


  semantically.
• Which of the following statements concerning memory is true?


  Memories are often a blend of correct and incorrect information.
• Which of the following is an example of an implicit memory?

  What time you had lunch yesterday