3-Do You remember? Exam #3 – Ch. 9,10,110 & 12
Ch. 9 – Thinking and language
 What is confirmation bias?
 What is an example of a mental set?
What is functional fixedness?
 What are heuristics?
 How could representativeness relate to race relations?
 How does “availability” relate to risk assessment?
 Have you ever overestimated your own ability and underestimated others?
What is that?
 When people argue they become more set in their ways.
Why (what heuristic) is that?
 How can framing influence you?
 What determines what we fear?
 What do we fear too little?
 What are the 5 thought problems to avoid?
Ch. 10 - Intelligence
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How does culture effect IQ scores?
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How do we know IQ is partly based on heredity?
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What is emotional intelligence?
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What is cognitive intelligence?
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What is the savant syndrome?
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How do you calculate IQ based on the older method?
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What was the problem with this method?
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What is the difference between achievement tests and aptitude tests?
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If a test has validity, what does that mean?
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If a test has reliability, what does that mean?
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Discuss the three types of validity?
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What is standardization, and how did that change the meaning of IQ?
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What is the concept of the normal bell curve that IQ is based on?
Ch. 11. Motivation
 What is an example of instinct, drive reduction, arousal, and incentive
motivation?
 What is an example of each of Maslow’s hierarchy levels?
 What would be an incentive to motivate a child’s behavior?
 What is the difference between anorexia and bulimia?
 What stage in the sexual response cycle do men have that women do not?
 Is it possible to get pregnant even with ejaculation outside the partner?
 What factors can effect sexual orientation?
 How is belongingness a motivator?
 What can beat talent and motivation for achievement?
 What is the interviewer illusion?
Ch. 12 – Emotion
 What are the three parts of emotion?
 What does the two factor theory have that the others do not?
 What is the adaptation-level phenomenon?
 As buying power increases, what happens to happiness?
 What nervous systems get you ready for fight or flight, and calm you down?
 What are the phases in the general adaptation syndrome?
 What social factors can cause stress and make you more vulnerable to
disease?
 Stress can increase your susceptibility to what diseases?
 What strategies help you cope with stress?
 What is an example of social support helping you cope with stress?
 What is an example of using biofeedback to reduce stress?
 Discuss the placebo effect.