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Our _____ memory increases with increasing aging. |
Semantic |
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Our _____ memory decreases with increasing aging. |
Episodic |
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What is memory inhibition |
the ability not to remember irrelevant information. |
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Episodic memory relies heavily on ____ lobe. |
frontal |
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According to the HAROLD model, changes with aging are associated with changes in ____ lobe of brain. |
frontal |
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What did Keating and Bobbitt discover? |
High-ability children acquire, store, and manipulate basic information more rapidly and efficiently than their same-age, normal-ability peers. |
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Who discovered the following? "High-ability children acquire, store, and manipulate basic information more rapidly and efficiently than their same-age, normal-ability peers." |
Keating and Bobbitt |
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What did Hernstein and Murray argue in their book, Bell Curve? |
* IQ is largely inherited by parents * Cognitive ability is relatively stable over the course of a person's lifetime * Cognitive ability = IQ and can be measured with a test |
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Who's arguments are the following? "* IQ is largely inherited by parents * Cognitive ability is relatively stable over the course of a person's lifetime * Cognitive ability = IQ and can be measured with a test" |
Hernstein and Murray |
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According to Gardner, intelligence can be expressed on the following dimensions: |
* Linguistic * Logical-mathematical * Musical * Bodily kinesthetic * Spatial * Interpersonal |
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According to ____ intelligence can be expressed on the following dimensions: * Linguistic * Logical-mathematical * Musical * Bodily kinesthetic * Spatial * Interpersonal |
Gardner |
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Who did the experiment on expert chess players? |
Eyal Reingold, UofT |
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Experts are better at memorizing a chessboard because ___ |
* They can chunk the chess pieces into meaningful groups * Experts are better able to recruit cognitive processes in order to perform a task |
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Chess experts can chunk the chess pieces into meaningful groups is supported by the fact that |
both experts and novices perform poorly on a random placement of chess pieces |
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Chess experts are better able to recruit cognitive processes in order to perform a task is supported by the fact that |
They pay attention to different areas of the board in the 5 second view |
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Bilingualism can be considered a massive exercise in _____ . |
Pay attention to information that one is supposed to respond, and ignore the unwanted information. |
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Men typically outperform women on ______ tasks. |
visual-spatial |
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Men/Women are better in mental rotation of objects? |
men |
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Women outperform men on visual tasks that ___. |
require observers to determine when the location of an object has changed. |
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Language skills develop earlier in men or women? |
women |
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Which gender is typically more verbally fluent? |
Women |
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Which gender's brain is less lateralized? |
Women |
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Which gender recovers better from brain injury? |
Women, because their brain is less lateralized |
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Loss in episodic memory as we age is associated with: |
* overall slowing * lost ability to inhibit irrelevant information * decreased attentional capacity * brain changes in frontal lobe |
