5 Written Questions

1. a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error prone
2. the mental activities associated with thinking knowing remembering and communicating
3. the retention of encodied information over time
4. attributing to teh wrong soruce an event we have expereicen ehar about read about or imagined. source amnesia, along with teh misinformation effect is at teh heart of many false memories
5. an increase in a synapse's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation, believed to be a neural basis for learninga nd memory

5 Matching Questions

1. short term memory
2. working memory
3. reliability
4. automatic processing
5. Stanford-Binet

1. a activated memory that holds a few items briefly, such as the 7 digits of a phone number
2. b the widely used American Revision of Binet's orginal intelligence test
3. c the extent to which a test yeilds consistent results as assessed by teh consistency of scores on two havles of the test
4. d a newer understanding of short term memory that focuses on conscious active processing of incoming auditory and visual spatial information and of information retrieved from mlong term memory
5. e unconscious encoding of incidental information such as space, time, and requency and well learned information such as wod meanings

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. a statistical procedure that identitfies clusters of related items on a test; used to identify differentdimensions of performance that underlie a person's total score
   1. factor analysis
   2. amenesia
   3. aptitude tests
   4. storage
2. a measure of intelligence test devised by Binet; the chronological agethat most typically corresponds to a given level of performance. Thus achild who does as well as teh average 8 yr old is said to have a mental age of 8
   1. storage
   2. mental set
   3. language
   4. mental age
3. teh encoding of sound, especially teh sound of words
   1. iconic memory
   2. acoustic encoding
   3. chunking
   4. semantic encoding
4. loss of memory
   1. chunking
   2. amenesia
   3. mental age
   4. deja vu
5. teh processing of many aspects of a problem simultaneously; the brain's natural mode of information processing from many functions.
   1. effortful processing
   2. repression
   3. parallel processing
   4. relearning

5 True/False Questions

1. savant syndrome → the retention of encodied information over time

   True        False

2. language → the retention of encodied information over time

   True        False

3. visual encoding → teh encoding of sound, especially teh sound of words

   True        False

4. long-term memory → activated memory that holds a few items briefly, such as the 7 digits of a phone number

   True        False

5. content validity → the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest

   True        False