"I know it! It's um . . . um . . . It starts with 'G'," begins a trivia game contestant excitedly. The contestant is falling prey to the _____ phenomenon.

A jeweler is unable to fix a particular mounting in a ring because she can imagine only the conventional uses for her tools. This situation demonstrates:

According to Erikson, the first stage of a child's psychosocial development is the _____ stage.

According to Mary Ainsworth, a child with ambivalent attachment will:

An individual's potential for learning is called:

An introductory psychology student expresses an interest in growth and change during childhood and adolescence. Which upper-level psychology course should she consider taking next semester?

Because she drank too much alcohol, Deanna barely remembers her 21st birthday. That is, her _____ memory is sketchy.

Clarice presses the Ctrl and S keys on her keyboard to save a document. A file is then created on her computer's hard drive. Clarice's action is MOST analogous to the memory activity of:

Compared to iconic memory, echoic memory:

Coral's IQ score is 104. She is in good company: nearly _____ out of 10 people have IQ scores between 85 and 115.

Critical periods suggest that:

Dawn is a graduate student investigating the development of fine motor skills. She selects one group of children and assesses their fine motor skills every 6 months over a 2-year period. In this example, Dawn is using a _____ research design.

Edric is no longer angry he is dying of colon cancer. If Kübler-Ross is correct, Edric will now experience:

Explicit memory is also called _____ memory.

Grouping pieces of information together to expand the capacity of short-term memory is called:

Heredity vs. environment is another of way of referring to the _____ debate.

In Piaget's theory, the process of fitting new experiences into existing schemas is called _____. The process of restructuring ideas to make room for new information is called _____.

In Sternberg's terms, _____ intelligence drives one's ability to adjust to different environments.

In the United States, the average life expectancy is just over _____ years for men and just over _____ years for women.

In the words of George Miller, the capacity of short-term memory is the "magical number _____."

Jody is completing a test in which she has to name as many state capitals as she can in 1 minute. Aditi is trying to complete analogies between pairs of abstract diagrams. Jody is completing a test of _____ intelligence, whereas Aditi is completing a test of _____ intelligence.

Kyana is an excellent salesperson because she can usually find a way of connecting with a potential client. Based on this information, in which kind of intelligence would Gardner expect Kyana to be high?

Last week, Mike heard about five separate airplane crashes on the news. Even though, overall, motorcycle accidents account for more accidents than plane crashes do, Mike decides to ride his motorcycle from Philadelphia to Atlanta instead of flying. Which bias is reflected in Mike's decision?

Maturation refers to _____ development.

Mental representations of categories of objects, situations, or ideas that share common features are called:

Nigel often cites newspaper editorials favoring the presidential candidate he supports and ignores editorials critical of the candidate. Nigel appears prone to:

Psychologists define _____ as the capacity to solve problems, adapt to the environment, and learn from experience.

Psychologists use the term _____ to refer to the patterns of physical, cognitive, and socioemotional change occurring throughout life.

Psychologists use the word _____ to refer to the processes whereby the brain collects, stores, and retrieves information for later use.

The MOST common type of infant temperament is _____, whereas the LEAST common type is _____.

The MOST commonly used IQ test in the United States is the:

The animal researcher _____ conducted classic studies of imprinting among goslings.

The field of cognitive development is greatly indebted to the seminal work of the Swiss scholar:

The first intelligence test was devised by:

The g-factor is:

The notion of creative intelligence is associated with:

  

Twelve-year-old Nathaniel was having trouble solving the word problems in his math homework. His dad began reading the problems aloud and emphasizing the important information. As Nathaniel started catching on, his dad gradually provided less help for each new problem. This interaction illustrates:

When one uses the term "remembering" in day-to-day life, one is making reference to the memory process of:

Which of the following sequences BEST reflects the order in which memory processes occur, from first to last?

Which of the following sequences best reflects the order of stages in the information processing model of memory?

Which sequence accurately reflects the order of Piaget's stages of cognitive development, from birth through adolescence?

Which sequence represents the units of genetics, from the smallest and most specific to the largest and most inclusive?

While a computer's hard drive may be likened to the memory process of storage, its keyboard is analogous to the process of:

Zelma is asked to think of all the words she can, beginning with the letters "squ," as in "squeak." Later she is given a fill-in-the-blank task on which one of the items is "s _ _ o n g." Zelma keeps trying to make "squong" a word, and has trouble thinking of the common word "strong." Zelma's ability to solve this problem has been hampered by:

_____ concepts are defined by precise rules.

_____ intelligence is NOT among Gardner's "frames of mind," or types of intelligence.

_____ intelligence is one of Gardner's "frames of mind," or forms of intelligence.

_____ is associated with a theory of intelligence proposing seven or more distinct forms of intelligence.

_____ is the first of Kübler-Ross's stages.