Sample
Test Questions -- Exam #2
At first a new mother produces milk only when
her baby sucks at her breast. After several weeks, however, she's begins to
produce milk as soon as the baby cries. In this example, the baby's cry is
a. the CS
b. the
c. the CR
d. the
Lippa's lecture examples of the moth's
hearing system and the frog's visual system illustrate the point that
a. animals' perceptual systems depend on maturation, not
learning
b. animals show biological preparedness in their learning
c. evolution has molded the perceptual capabilities of
animals
d. animals display short-term but not long-term memory
A mnemonic device is
a. an apparatus that memory psychologists use to study
short-term memory
b. a brain implant that helps people who suffer from
amnesia which results from brain damage
c. a controlled environment, like a Skinner box, used to
study animal learning
d. a "trick" or a procedure for helping people
remember information
If a test -- such as an IQ test -- measures
something consistently and repeated measures agree with each other, then the
test shows
a. reliability
b. validity
c. heritability
d. cultural bias
You remember that cats are mammals and that
birds have wings. This is an example of
a. sensory memory
b. semantic memory
c. episodic memory
d. procedural memory
A heuristic is
a. a technique for improving memory
b. a way of coming up with novel solutions to problems
that "break set"
c. a well-defined, step-by-step procedure for solving a
problem that is guaranteed to come up with an answer
d. a rough and quick technique for solving a problem or
answering a question that does not guarantee a correct answer
Who developed the first modern IQ test? His
goal was to identify "dull" school children and to put them in
special classes.
a. Francis Galton
b. Alfred Binet
c. Charles Spearman
d. Robert Sternberg
Which of the follow are examples of onomatopoeia?
a. words like "buzz" and "hiss,"
which sound like the things they describe
b. the creative, convoluted, and novel sentences produce
by writers like William Faulkner
c. the technique used by honeybees to communicate the
direction of a food supply
d. the fact that "Bobby hits Suzy" means
something different from "Suzy hits Bobby" in English -- i.e., the
order of words makes a difference
Which of the following is not likely to be a
CR in a classical conditioning experiment?
a. salivation
b. perspiration
c. eye blinks
d. lever presses
Which IQ researcher argued that there is a
general factor, termed g, which permeates all intellectual abilities. People who are high on g have high general
intelligence?
a. Binet
b. Spearman
c. Thurstone
d. Galton