Unit 3: Chapter 7,9,8
Directions: The following vocabulary terms, key people and study questions will be answered on notebook paper.
This assignment is due the day of your unit exam. Each chapter is worth 1 daily grade. Nothing can be computed
generated.
Want Extra Credit? 10 points extra credit points will be given on your test if you choose to answer on notecards
instead of notebook paper.
Chapter 7 Unit 3 Study Guide: Memory
Vocabulary
Key Figures
Modal model
Serial Position Effect
George Sperling
Sensory memory
Retroactive Interference
Iconic
Semantic Memory
Echoic
Episodic Memory
Partial Report
Source Amnesia
Framing
Proactive Interference
Primacy
Non-declarative Memory
Recency
State Dependent Memory
Study Questions:
1. What is a schema? Explain how schemas influence encoding.
2. Describe some of the possible causes of retrograde, anterograde and infantile amnesia.
3. Describe Ebbinghaus’s “Curve of Forgetting “ and factors that contributed to his rapid, substantial
forgetting.
Chapter 9 Unit 3 Study Guide: Intelligence
Vocabulary
Flynn Effect
Norms
Standardization Sample
Equivalent form reliability
Split half reliability
Test retest reliability
Internal validity
External Validity
Predictive Validity
g factor
Intelligence Quotient
Emotional Intelligence
Key Figures
Alfred Binet
Louis Terman
Charles Spearman
Robert Sternberg
Howard Gardner
Daniel Coleman
Study Questions:
1. Differentiate between crystallized and fluid intelligence. How is their application related to age?
2. Differentiate between achievement tests and aptitude tests.
3. How well do intelligence tests predict the performance of different ethnic groups?
4. Differentiate between static and dynamic intelligence testing.
5. What did Terman’s longitudinal study of gifted children find regarding their success as adults?
Chapter 8 Unit 3 Study Guide: Language and Thought
Vocabulary
Phoneme
Morpheme
Syntax
Prosody
Holophrases
Language Acquisition Device
Algorithms
Heuristics
Divergent Thinking
Convergent Thinking
Availability Heuristic
Insight
Representative Heuristic
Syllogisms
Prototype
Basic Concept
Cognition
Study Questions:
1. What is functional fixedness?
2. What is the difference between surface structure and deep structure?
Key Figures
B.F. Skinner
Noam Chomsky
Edward Sapir
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Wolfgang Kohler