PSY-101 Exam 3 Practice Questions & Answers
1. Girls are most likely to outperform boys in a(n)
Spelling bee
2. The bell-shaped pattern that represents the frequency of occurrence of intelligence test
scores in the general population is called a:
Normal Curve
3. The ability to control one’s impulses and delay immediate pleasures in pursuit of long-
term goals is most clearly a characteristic of:
Emo'onal Intelligence
4. Most experts would agree that intelligence tests are “biased” in the sense that
A test performance is influenced by cultural experiences
5. Individuals with Down syndrome are
Born with an extra chromosome
6. In an effort to remember how to spell “rhinoceros,” Samantha spells the word aloud 30
times. She is using a technique known as:
Rehearsal
7. People experience surging physical growth and sexual maturation during:
Puberty
8. Cheating on an exam is unfair to those who have worked really hard reflects what level of
moral reasoning according to Kholberg:
Conventional
9. Piaget is best known for his interest in the process of ________ development
Cognitive
10. In the early twentieth century, the U.S. government developed intelligence tests to
evaluate newly arriving immigrants. Poor test scores among immigrants who were not of
Anglo-Saxon heritage were attributed by some psychologists of that day to:
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, Innate mental inferiority
11. “The magical number seven, plus or minus two” refers to the storage capacity of
________ memory.
Short term
12. Five-year-old Jaime performs on an intelligence test at a level characteristic of an average
4-year- old. Jaime's mental age is:
4
13. The process of encoding refers to:
Getting information into memory
14. Chunking refers to:
The organization of information into meaningful units
15. Spearman’s g factor refers to:
A general intelligence that underlies successful performance on a wide variety of
tasks.
16. Kohlberg emphasized that human behavior becomes less sel6ish as we mature due to:
Social Development
17. Which of the following represents the correct order of Piaget's stages of cognitive
development?
Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
18. Psychologists use ___to assess individuals' mental aptitudes and compare them with
those of others?
Intelligence tests
19. Forming many associations b/w new course material and what you already know is an
effective way to build a network of:
Retrieval cues
20. Which type of memory has an essentially unlimited capacity?
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1. Girls are most likely to outperform boys in a(n)
Spelling bee
2. The bell-shaped pattern that represents the frequency of occurrence of intelligence test
scores in the general population is called a:
Normal Curve
3. The ability to control one’s impulses and delay immediate pleasures in pursuit of long-
term goals is most clearly a characteristic of:
Emo'onal Intelligence
4. Most experts would agree that intelligence tests are “biased” in the sense that
A test performance is influenced by cultural experiences
5. Individuals with Down syndrome are
Born with an extra chromosome
6. In an effort to remember how to spell “rhinoceros,” Samantha spells the word aloud 30
times. She is using a technique known as:
Rehearsal
7. People experience surging physical growth and sexual maturation during:
Puberty
8. Cheating on an exam is unfair to those who have worked really hard reflects what level of
moral reasoning according to Kholberg:
Conventional
9. Piaget is best known for his interest in the process of ________ development
Cognitive
10. In the early twentieth century, the U.S. government developed intelligence tests to
evaluate newly arriving immigrants. Poor test scores among immigrants who were not of
Anglo-Saxon heritage were attributed by some psychologists of that day to:
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, Innate mental inferiority
11. “The magical number seven, plus or minus two” refers to the storage capacity of
________ memory.
Short term
12. Five-year-old Jaime performs on an intelligence test at a level characteristic of an average
4-year- old. Jaime's mental age is:
4
13. The process of encoding refers to:
Getting information into memory
14. Chunking refers to:
The organization of information into meaningful units
15. Spearman’s g factor refers to:
A general intelligence that underlies successful performance on a wide variety of
tasks.
16. Kohlberg emphasized that human behavior becomes less sel6ish as we mature due to:
Social Development
17. Which of the following represents the correct order of Piaget's stages of cognitive
development?
Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
18. Psychologists use ___to assess individuals' mental aptitudes and compare them with
those of others?
Intelligence tests
19. Forming many associations b/w new course material and what you already know is an
effective way to build a network of:
Retrieval cues
20. Which type of memory has an essentially unlimited capacity?
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