McGill PSYC 100 (Latest Update 2026 /
2027) Questions with Correct Answers
100% Verified {Grade A} -McGill University
Episodic Memory - correct answer Used for recalling a first person view of some
episode of life
Semantic Memory - correct answer Used for knowledge of facts
Forgetting Curve - correct answer As time passes, we forget - memory drops to
around 25%
Primacy/Recency - correct answer We are more likely to remember the first/last
things in a set
Flashbulb Memory - correct answer Recollection of extreme/traumatic/vivid
memories; notorious for high confidence, but low accuracy
"I know what I saw"
,Misinformation - correct answer After the fact information that influences a
memory/knowledge/experience
Representativeness Heuristic - correct answer Judging the probability of an event
based on its superficial similarity to a prototype (stereotype)
Availability Heuristic - correct answer Estimating the likelihood of an occurrence
based on the ease with which it comes to our minds (not thinking too hard about
something)
Hindsight Bias - correct answer People tend to overestimate their ability to predict
something after they know the outcome
"I knew it all along"
Functional Fixedness - correct answer Difficulty conceptualizing that an object
typically used for one purpose could be used for another
,Francis Galton - correct answer Contribution: Intelligence is related to sensory
capabilities
Binet and Simon - correct answer Contribution: "Mental age"
Objective intelligence test
Goal of determining when students are falling behind
Intelligence is related to abstract thinking capabilities (tradition maintained today)
Mental Age - correct answer The age corresponding to the average person's
performance on an intelligence test
Charles Spearman - correct answer Contribution: 'Mental Energy' (some people just
have a better engine in their noggin)
Measured mental energy with "g"
Used "s" for measure of skill in specific abilities
Cattell and Horn - correct answer Contribution: Fluid Intelligence, Crystallized
Intelligence
, Rejected "g"
Fluid Intelligence - correct answer Capacity to learn new ways of solving problems
Crystallized Intelligence - correct answer Accumulated knowledge of the world -
mostly facts
Howard Gardner - correct answer Contribution: Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Multiple intelligences - correct answer Idea that there is more than than one field of
intelligence; people can be knowledgeable/successful in one area, but incompetent in
another
Robert Sternberg - correct answer Contribution: Triarchic Model of Intelligence
Triarchic Model of Intelligence - correct answer Analytic Intelligence (book smarts)
Practical Intelligence (street smarts)
Creative Intelligence (fluidity)
2027) Questions with Correct Answers
100% Verified {Grade A} -McGill University
Episodic Memory - correct answer Used for recalling a first person view of some
episode of life
Semantic Memory - correct answer Used for knowledge of facts
Forgetting Curve - correct answer As time passes, we forget - memory drops to
around 25%
Primacy/Recency - correct answer We are more likely to remember the first/last
things in a set
Flashbulb Memory - correct answer Recollection of extreme/traumatic/vivid
memories; notorious for high confidence, but low accuracy
"I know what I saw"
,Misinformation - correct answer After the fact information that influences a
memory/knowledge/experience
Representativeness Heuristic - correct answer Judging the probability of an event
based on its superficial similarity to a prototype (stereotype)
Availability Heuristic - correct answer Estimating the likelihood of an occurrence
based on the ease with which it comes to our minds (not thinking too hard about
something)
Hindsight Bias - correct answer People tend to overestimate their ability to predict
something after they know the outcome
"I knew it all along"
Functional Fixedness - correct answer Difficulty conceptualizing that an object
typically used for one purpose could be used for another
,Francis Galton - correct answer Contribution: Intelligence is related to sensory
capabilities
Binet and Simon - correct answer Contribution: "Mental age"
Objective intelligence test
Goal of determining when students are falling behind
Intelligence is related to abstract thinking capabilities (tradition maintained today)
Mental Age - correct answer The age corresponding to the average person's
performance on an intelligence test
Charles Spearman - correct answer Contribution: 'Mental Energy' (some people just
have a better engine in their noggin)
Measured mental energy with "g"
Used "s" for measure of skill in specific abilities
Cattell and Horn - correct answer Contribution: Fluid Intelligence, Crystallized
Intelligence
, Rejected "g"
Fluid Intelligence - correct answer Capacity to learn new ways of solving problems
Crystallized Intelligence - correct answer Accumulated knowledge of the world -
mostly facts
Howard Gardner - correct answer Contribution: Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Multiple intelligences - correct answer Idea that there is more than than one field of
intelligence; people can be knowledgeable/successful in one area, but incompetent in
another
Robert Sternberg - correct answer Contribution: Triarchic Model of Intelligence
Triarchic Model of Intelligence - correct answer Analytic Intelligence (book smarts)
Practical Intelligence (street smarts)
Creative Intelligence (fluidity)
