Which term did Alfred Binet use to describe the typical intelligence level found for people at a given chronological age?
A. standard age
B. physical age
C. intelligence quotient
D. mental age
Answer: D
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a. Girls are more emotional than boys. b. Boys are more likely to join groups that ease the transition. c. Girls are likely to be undergoing pubertal changes at the same time. d. They are not? this transition is actually harder on boys because of competitive expectations.
Substance abuse and substance dependence are
a. Different terms for the same condition b. Two similar but separate diagnoses in the DSM-5 c. Outdated terms that reflect incomplete understanding of neurobiology d. Combined into a single diagnosis in the DSM-5
Chunking is a means of _______
a. immediately forgetting irrelevant details b. organizing information into meaningful units c. arranging details into a hierarchy from most important to least important d. storing long-term memories
In a memory study, the experimenter reads the same list of words to two groups. She asks group A to count the letters in each word, and she asks group B to focus on the meaning of each word for a later memory quiz. During a recall test, participants in group B recall significantly more words than participants in group A. Memory researchers attribute this effect to differences in
A. priming B. levels of processing C. proactive interference D. procedural memory E. episodic memory