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PSYCHOLOGY FINAL EXAM 2025 [BRAND NEW]
What is measured by the paper folding test? - ANSWER- Spatial Imagery
What is mental imagery? - ANSWER- The ability to recreate sensory information without physical stimuli
What is a component of psychosocial development? - ANSWER- Personality Which example shows the difference between the standard model of consolidation and the multiple trace model of consolidation regarding encoding episodic memories about a trip to a lake? - ANSWER- The standard model of consolidation argues that the hippocampus is involved only in the early development of lake trip memories, but the multiple trace model argues that the hippocampus remains active in long-term trip memories.
What has research determined about the association between neutral language r profanity and enhanced memory? - ANSWER- Arousing words that reference profanity or explicit content are more memorable than neutral words
Which example demonstrates the application of Bartlett's repeated reproduction when a student is tested on course content? - ANSWER- A student discusses the 1 / 4
content in their study guide four times, then five times, daily for two days before a test to concisely recall the information.
Which example demonstrates the Proust effect? - ANSWER- A person smells freshly chopped wood and recalls a cabin vacation with their family.
which significant findings did the "war of ghosts" experiment demonstrate regarding the effect of repeated reproduction on recall? - ANSWER- Increased time passage led to greater inaccuracies and omissions in recall of the stories based on cultural context
Which factor affects the accuracy and reliability of eyewitness testimony? - ANSWER- Eyewitnesses may not see all aspects of a given incident
What was the source of the imagery debate? - ANSWER- Whether imagery is spatial or propositional
Which aspect of lifespan development examines creativity? - ANSWER- cognitive
What is an example of lexical priming? - ANSWER- A student is able to determine the meaning of a word after recently encountering a similar word
What does the term in-attentional blindness suggest? - ANSWER- A person fails to notice stimuli when their attention is focused elsewhere
What determines an individual's chronotype? - ANSWER- The genes they inherit from both parents
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How does methadone affect opioid withdrawal? - ANSWER- It decreases the severity of the symptoms
An engineer notices a colleague's leaking cup and then thinks about how paper degrades and applies this observation to a design for planter pots that leave no carbon footprint. Which method does the engineer apply to solve the problem of designing their product in this scenario? - ANSWER- The engineer applied analogical reasoning that considers semantic knowledge and observations of how others solve problems while designing their product.
A group is asked to solve a complex puzzle by first stating its complex rules. Then later, the puzzle is re-explained more simply, leading to a higher rate of success.How would understanding the aspects of reasoning affect perception of the problem? - ANSWER- By considering how context of presentation influences judgment
Which statement explains why it is possible to juggle while thinking about a future vacation? - ANSWER- A person can think clearly about the vacation if they are an expert juggler
While preparing for a quiz, a student commits key terms to long-term memory by associating those terms to meaningful moments in their life. How does this practice help the student memorize the terms? - ANSWER- It employs the technique of elaborative rehearsal
A person is walking and talking with a friend in the woods. How does the visuospatial sketch pad differ from the phonological loop according to Baddeley's model of working memory? - ANSWER- The visuospatial sketch pad holds information about potential hazards, whereas the phonological loop holds information related to the friend's words.
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A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was traveling down the hills were beautiful." Which cognitive process illustrates casual inference? - ANSWER- The child infers that the hills being beautiful are caused by the motion of the moving car
Which conversation between two students demonstrates the process of entrainment? - ANSWER- The students both start speaking loudly and gesturing.
Which cortex of the frontal lobe is activated when someone determines whether another person appears to be physically attractive? - ANSWER- Frontal Cortex
What is the electrical impulse fired down the axon of a neuron? - ANSWER- Action Potential
Which part of a neuron transports an electrical signal? - ANSWER- Axon
Which types of tasks have revealed cognitive deficits in people with a substance abuse disorder? - ANSWER- Working Memory Tests
Which example shows how sensory memory results in the persistence of vision when watching fireworks? - ANSWER- Fireworks appear as falling trails of light due to iconic memories lasting fractions of a second.
Which explanation shows how multiple forms of memory would contribute to effective execution of a mental math problem? - ANSWER- Numbers are held in short-term memory and manipulations are conducted on the numbers in working memory when solving the math problem.
Which scenario exemplifies how the articulatory rehearsal process contributes to a student's short-term memory for course lecture material, according to Baddeley's
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