KU PSYC 333 (Cushing) Exam 2 Study Guide: Abnormal Psychology Review
In Piaget’s cognitive development theory, the basic goal of intelligence is to - ✔✔Adapt to the
environment
Four-year-old Britney mistakes her neighbor's new pet rabbit for a kitten. Britney's error
illustrates the Piagetian process of: - ✔✔Assimilation
The pre-operational principal called centration means that the child: - ✔✔Attends to each
objects single most salient feature
Recent theoretical discussion on Piaget's stages has focused on the issue of whether: -
✔✔Cognition develops continuously instead of stages
According to Vygotsky, __________ development refers to the short-term longitudinal changes
in the child's competencies or performances - ✔✔Microgentic
The formal education of children in the United States and Europe primarily Involves -
✔✔Context-Independant learning
Which theorist regarded the child's self-directed speech to be important, sophisticated,
purposive, or communicative - ✔✔Vygotsky, but not Piaget
The use of the computer as a model for understanding the child's mind is part of the: -
✔✔Information-Processing perspective
Which maturational change has been identified as the source of age-related improvements in
childrens processing speed? - ✔✔Myelinization of the brains associative areas
, Theorists such as Kipp and Bjorklund have claimed that inhabitory processes are needed so that
the child: - ✔✔Can suppress task-irrelevant distracting thoughts
Free recall refers to recalling - ✔✔In the absence of useful hints or retrieval cues
A five year old describes going to the dentist as "you get in the car, drive there, get out of car, go
inside, wait, go in dentist chair, get teeth fixed, jump from chair, walk to car, go home." This is a:
- ✔✔Memory Script
Researchers have found that African adolescents display better recall for orally transmitted
stories than do American adolescents. This is an example of: - ✔✔Cross-Cultural Differences in
the tools of intellectual adaptation from remembering
In the study of preschoolers efforts to gumballs between bowls, brown and Kane found that: -
✔✔Used analogical hints effectively to solve the task
In Binet's intelligence test, what was meant by the expression "mental age of seven"? - ✔✔The
child passed items that most seven year olds pass
Louis Thurstone's factor analyses led him to the theoretical conclusion that Spearman's g-factor
is - ✔✔Actually seven separate mental abilities
In Sternbergs triarchic theory, the componential (information-processing) componet of intellect
includes: - ✔✔Knowledge, Strategies, and Metacognition
Test norms for IQ test? - ✔✔Are based on average scores and variations within large pretested
samples for the age group
The Flynn effect refers to a long-term secular trend in which: - ✔✔IQ's have risen by three
points in entire population over each decade
In Piaget’s cognitive development theory, the basic goal of intelligence is to - ✔✔Adapt to the
environment
Four-year-old Britney mistakes her neighbor's new pet rabbit for a kitten. Britney's error
illustrates the Piagetian process of: - ✔✔Assimilation
The pre-operational principal called centration means that the child: - ✔✔Attends to each
objects single most salient feature
Recent theoretical discussion on Piaget's stages has focused on the issue of whether: -
✔✔Cognition develops continuously instead of stages
According to Vygotsky, __________ development refers to the short-term longitudinal changes
in the child's competencies or performances - ✔✔Microgentic
The formal education of children in the United States and Europe primarily Involves -
✔✔Context-Independant learning
Which theorist regarded the child's self-directed speech to be important, sophisticated,
purposive, or communicative - ✔✔Vygotsky, but not Piaget
The use of the computer as a model for understanding the child's mind is part of the: -
✔✔Information-Processing perspective
Which maturational change has been identified as the source of age-related improvements in
childrens processing speed? - ✔✔Myelinization of the brains associative areas
, Theorists such as Kipp and Bjorklund have claimed that inhabitory processes are needed so that
the child: - ✔✔Can suppress task-irrelevant distracting thoughts
Free recall refers to recalling - ✔✔In the absence of useful hints or retrieval cues
A five year old describes going to the dentist as "you get in the car, drive there, get out of car, go
inside, wait, go in dentist chair, get teeth fixed, jump from chair, walk to car, go home." This is a:
- ✔✔Memory Script
Researchers have found that African adolescents display better recall for orally transmitted
stories than do American adolescents. This is an example of: - ✔✔Cross-Cultural Differences in
the tools of intellectual adaptation from remembering
In the study of preschoolers efforts to gumballs between bowls, brown and Kane found that: -
✔✔Used analogical hints effectively to solve the task
In Binet's intelligence test, what was meant by the expression "mental age of seven"? - ✔✔The
child passed items that most seven year olds pass
Louis Thurstone's factor analyses led him to the theoretical conclusion that Spearman's g-factor
is - ✔✔Actually seven separate mental abilities
In Sternbergs triarchic theory, the componential (information-processing) componet of intellect
includes: - ✔✔Knowledge, Strategies, and Metacognition
Test norms for IQ test? - ✔✔Are based on average scores and variations within large pretested
samples for the age group
The Flynn effect refers to a long-term secular trend in which: - ✔✔IQ's have risen by three
points in entire population over each decade
