FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP PSYCH: UNIT 3 EXAM

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP PSYCH: UNIT 3 EXAM

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Question 1: What do Intelligence Test assess?

Answer:

People's mental aptitudes and compares them with those of others, using numerical scores

Question 2: What is Availability Heuristic?

Answer:

estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness), we presume such events are common

Question 3: Define Mental Set

Answer:

An example of fixation where our tendency to approach a problem with the mind-set of what has worked for us previously.

Question 4: What is Testing Effect

Answer:

enhanced memory after retrieving and NOT just rereading information (practicing your knowledge)

Question 5: Scary but true intelligence findings

Answer:

• racial and ethnic groups differ in their average intelligence test scores
• high scoring people are more likely to attain higher levels of education/income

Question 6: What's the Misinformation Effect

Answer:

Elizabeth Loftus demonstrated that when exposed to subtle misleading information, people may misremember

Question 7: Define Standardization

Answer:

Defining a uniformed testing procedures and scores by comparing with the performance of a pretested curve

Question 8: Chunking (effortful process strategy)

Answer:

organizing items into familiar, manageable units

Question 9: Hierarchies (effortful process strategy)

Answer:

broader concept broken up into smaller ones then eventually narrowing to specific facts

Question 10: What is the Basal Ganglia

Answer:

deep brain structures involved in motor movement, facilitate formation of our IMPLICIT memories

Question 11: Define Framing

Answer:

the way an issue is posed; how an issue is worded can significantly affect decisions and judgments

Question 12: Explain Automatic Processing

Answer:

information slips into long-term memory via a "back door," without our consciously attending to it

Question 13: Define Concepts

Answer:

mental groupings of similar objects, events, ideas, or people

Question 14: What's a prototype

Answer:

a mental image or best example of a category (what's the birdiest bird)

Question 15: Example of Context Dependent Memory

Answer:

Remembering AP psych terms better in the classroom because that's where you learned them

Question 16: Components of Emotional Intelligence

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• perceiving emotions
• understanding emotions
• managing emotions
• using emotions

Question 17: Define Convergent Thinking

Answer:

narrowing the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution (think SAT)

Question 18: Define Recall

Answer:

retrieving information that is not currently in your conscious awareness but that was learned at an earlier time (think FRQ)

Question 19: Define Validity

Answer:

The extent to which a test of experiment measures or predicts what it is supposed to

Question 20: Theories of Multiple Intelligence (by Howard Gardner)

Answer:

Navigate, linguistic, Logic-mathematical, musical, special, bodily-kinesthetic, intrapersonal,

Question 21: What is Project Head Start?

Answer:

a program that provides a range of services to support the development of children from low income families

Question 22: Define General Intelligence (G)?

Answer:

Underlies all mental abilities and therefore is measured by every task on an intelligence test

Question 23: Examples of Semantic Memory and Episodic Memory

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Semantic: facts and general knowledge

Episodic: experiences and events

Question 24: A difference between achievement and amplitude test

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Achievement: Intended to reflect what you've already learned

Amplitude: intend to predict your ability to learn

Question 25: What is a Cross Sectional Study?

Answer:

Research across different groups at one time

Question 26: Define Reliability

Answer:

The extent to which a test yields consistent results accessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test (idk test or retest)

Question 27: Define Cognition

Answer:

all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

Question 28: What is Crystalized Intelligence (GC)?

Answer:

Our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills tends to increase with age