Psych 100 Practice Final Fall 12 Page 1PSYCHOLOGY 100 PRACTICE FINALFALL 2012Suggestions for making the most of this practice final1. Use this practice final AFTER you think you have finished studying and are prepared for the test. Then take the practice final. The results will either confirm or disconfirm your view that you are prepared. Ideally, you should leave a day or two between taking the practice final and the real exam – just in case you find out you need to study some more.2. Use the results of the practice final to diagnose areas of weakness. In the practice final, as in the real exam, questions are organized according to chapter. If you find that you are getting a lot of questions wrong in a particular chapter, go back and review that one.3. If, after grading the answers and checking your text, you still don’t understand one of the answers, ask your instructor.4. If you find that you “almost knew it”, as in, “I narrowed it down to two possible answers, but then I guessed wrong” this means you don’t know it well enough! 5. Take the practice final in circumstances that mimic those of the real final closely as possible. Take it all in one sitting, in a quiet place. 6. Don’t cheat! It really isn’t useful to you if you get questions right because you peeked.Psych 100 Practice Final Fall 12 Page 2Psych 100 Practice Final Fall 12 Page 31. In the English word "philosophy", the "ph" represents one ___.A) phoneme B) morpheme C) grapheme D) syntactic rule2. Linda's 3-month-old infant keeps saying "ga-ga" and "doh-doh." Should she be worried?A) Yes; parents should not encourage nonsense language in their infants, because it can lead to language problems later on.B) Maybe; her 3-month-old should be saying at least a couple of words by now.C) No; this behavior is called babbling and it is normal for infants.D) No, although the infant should start to string these syllables together to form words in the next month or two.3. If you didn't already know sign language and you observed two deaf persons using signs, you would probablyA) have an easy time deciphering their conversation.B) understand little to nothing about what was being communicated.C) have to rely on their facial expressions.D) be able to join in the conversation after a few minutes.4. A book about language development titled "Born to Talk" is most likely based on the ______ account of language development.A) Nativist B) Social Pragmatics C) General Cognitive Processing D) Linguistic Determinism5. In nonhuman animals, the most common circumstances under which communication occurs areA) feeding and labor. C) aggression and mating.B) hunting and food distribution. D) mating and food distribution.6. Which of the following statements about bilingual individuals is FALSE?A) Bilinguals have greater awareness of the structure of language than monolinguals.B) Bilinguals acquire syntax slightly more slowly in childhood than monolinguals.C) Bilinguals have slightly slower cognitive development in childhood than monolinguals.D) Most bilinguals have one language that is dominant.7. The basic meaningful units of any language are called ________.A) phonemes B) morphemes C) semantics D) sound bytes8. “Hamburger” is an example of a(n) ____, while your knowledge about how you obtain one is an example of a(n)____.A) heuristic; algorithm B) concept; schema C) schema; concept D) concept; heuristic9. When a student is understands how to solve a problem, but cannot see how to use this knowledge when given the same type of problem in a slightly different format, the student is being hindered by ______.A) salience of surface similarities. B) mental sets. C) functional fixedness. D) parallel paradigms.10. At the grocery store, a large sign proclaims "30% off!" of your second-favorite brand of chips. As you are reaching for the bag, you think to yourself, "but it would only cost an additional 30 cents to get my favorite brand." Your decision is being influenced by ____.A) the representativeness heuristic C) linguistic determinismB) framing effects D) subliminal influencesPsych 100 Practice Final Fall 12 Page 411. Justin was an average student in school. He ultimately earned his college degree, barely maintaining a "C" average. He has since been named manager of a local retail store and is responsible for the store's unprecedentedsuccess. According to Sternberg, at what type of intelligence does Justin excel?A) Social B) Practical C) Analytical D) Creative12. As your grandmother has been getting older, you have noticed several ways in which her cognitive abilities havebegun to decline. As she ages, she is most likely to lose her ability toA) read a novel. C) write you a letter.B) remember her pet's name. D) navigate in a city she never visited before.13. Although many successful musical artists don't appear to have “book smarts”, they certainly have the “street smarts” needed to succeed in the music industry. Which theory of intelligence BEST accounts for this observation?A) g theory C) information processing theoryB) triarchic theory D) crystallized intelligence theory14. Mrs. Linder, a high school math teacher, believes that students who are good at math will also be good in English, history, and music. Mrs. Linder's belief best supports which concept of intelligence?A) Spearman's g B) the triarchic theory C) genetic theory D) multiple intelligences15. Annetta figured out fifty-seven ways to use a toothpick and won a year's supply of toothpicks for her efforts. Annetta demonstrated _____ thinking by figuring out all the uses of a toothpick.A) convergent B) crystallized C) multiple D) divergent16. Stern’s formula states that IQ = Mental Age/Chronological Age X 100. According to this formula, a student withan IQ score of 120 is likely to answer IQ test questions like someone who is age ________, even though the student is only ________.A) 10; 12 B) 12; 11 C) 10; 8 D) 12; 1017. Which of the following subtests of the WAIS is the least likely to contain culturally biased items?A) Vocabulary B) Similarities C) Picture completion D) Comprehension18. An IQ score below ________ may lead to a classification of mental retardation.A) 100 B) 90 C) 80 D) 7019. Identical twins have IQ correlations around .7, whereas fraternal twins have IQ correlations of about .3.