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exam_3_study_guide.docxExam 3 Study Guide
Memory
1. Where in the brain are memories created?
2. Where in the brain are memories stored?
3. Which neurotransmitters are involved in memory processes?
4. What is the process of memories?
5. What is sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory?
6. What is the difference between procedural and episodic memories?
7. What is the difference between proactive and retroactive interference?
8. What is anterograde amnesia?
Intelligence
1. Describe Garner’s Multiple Intelligences.
2. Describe Spearman’s 2-Factor Theory of Intelligence.
3. What is standardization? What does it allow you to do?
4. Define reliability. Define validity. Make sure you know the difference between them.
5. If a test is biased, it lacks validity. Based on your definition of validity, explain why a biased test would not be valid.
6. In the “nature v. nurture” debate, which one refers to genes?
7. What % of intelligence is determined by genes?
8. What is stereotype threat?
9. What was the non-verbal, culturally biased IQ test used by the Army? Who was it biased against?
Social Psychology
1. What are attributions?
2. Define and provide an example of both a situational and a dispositional attribution that professors may make to explain why students are tardy to class.
3. The fundamental attribution error states that we overestimate which—situational or dispositional attributions?
4. What is the term for the rules for accepted and expected behaviors within a culture, such as how you greet a person?
5. Define conformity and briefly describe Asch’s famous study of conformity using the line task.
6. Define obedience and briefly describe Milgram’s famous study of obedience which claimed to shock people.
7. In Milgram’s studies, what was found to increase obedience?
8. Why would Milgram’s studies be considered unethical by today’s studies (Note: remember that no one was actually shocked in the studies.)
9. What are the 3 components of prejudice?
