FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYC 206 UNIT 2 EXAM

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYC 206 UNIT 2 EXAM

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Question 1: Explicit Memory

Answer:

Conscious memory of facts and experiences

Question 2: Convergent Thinking

Answer:

Thinking that produces one correct answer; characteristics of the kind of thinking required in conventional intelligence tests

Question 3: Concrete Operational Stage

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The third Piagetian stage, which lasts from approximately 7-11 year; children can perform concrete operations, and logical reasoning replaces intuitive reasoning as long as the reasoning can be applied to specific or concrete examples

Question 4: Adolescent Egocentrisim

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The heightened self-consciousness of adolescents, which is reflected in adolescents' beliefs that others are as interested in them as they are themselves, and in adolescents' sense of personal uniqueness and invincibility

Question 5: Formal Operational Stage

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The fourth and final Piagetian stage, which appears between the ages of 11 and 15; individuals move beyond concrete experiences into more abstract and logical ways

Question 6: What does the Gardner test focus on?

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Verbal/mathematical, spatial/movement/musical, interpersonal/intrapersonal, and naturalistic

Question 7: What are the three processes required for memory?

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Encoding, storage, and retrieval

Question 8: Semantic Memory

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A person's knowledge about the world, including fields of expertise, general academic knowledge, and "everyday knowledge" about meanings of words, names of famous individuals, important places, and common things

Question 9: Giftedness

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Having above-average intelligence (an IQ of 130 or higher) and/or superior talent for something

Question 10: Emotional Intelligence

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The ability to perceive and express emotions accurately and adaptively, to understand emotion and emotional knowledge to use feelings to facilitate thought and to manage emotions in oneself and others

Question 11: Bayley Scales of Infant Development

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Widely used scales, developed by Nancy Bayley, for assessing infant development; current version (Bayley-III) has five scales: cognitive, language, and motor to the infant with socioemotional and adaptive to the caregiver

Question 12: Which of the following is NOT true of adolescents' decision-making ability?

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Adolescents tend to make better decisions when they are emotionally aroused.

Question 13: Memory

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The retention of information over time Question 14: According to William Perry, compared to adolescent thinking, adult thinking is

_______.

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Reflective and Relativistic

Question 15: Seriation

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The concrete operation that involves ordering stimuli along a quantitative dimension (such as length)

Question 16: Fuzzy-Trace Theory Dual-Process Model

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States that decision making is influenced by two systems- "verbatim" analytical (literal and precise) and gist-based intuition (simple bottom-line meaning)- which operate in parallel; in this model, gist-based intuition benefits adolescent decision making

Question 17: What is the order of Piaget's stages?

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Sensorimotor-> Preoperational -> Concrete Operational -> Formal Operational

Question 18: Who developed the WISC, WAIS, and WWPSI intelligence tests?

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David Weschler Question 19: Cognitive groupings of similar people, events, objects, or ideas are called ____.

Answer:

Concepts

Question 20: Animism and egocentrism represent limitations in the preoperational child's thinking because they indicate an inability to _______.

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Distinguish among different or real perspectives Question 21: Which of the following older adults has the LEAST successful strategy for improving his cognitive skills?

Answer:

Dwayne listens to easy-listening music for 2 hours everyday

Question 22: Wisdom

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Expert knowledge about the practical aspects of life that permits excellent judgment about important matters

Question 23: Intelligence Quotient (IQ)

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An individual's mental age divided by chronological age multiplied by 100; devised in 1912 by William Stern

Question 24: Working Memory

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A mental "workbench" where individuals manipulate and assemble information when making decisions, solving problems, and comprehending written and spoken language Question 25: Malian is a highly regarded surgeon. She is also very good at dancing for leisure.According to Gardner, she is strong in ________ intelligence.

Answer:

Bodily-kinesthetic

Question 26: Transitivity

Answer:

The ability to logically combine relations to understand certain conclusions; Piaget argued that an understanding of transitivity is characteristic of concrete operational thought