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A test can be reliable, but still not be valid. 

Little Jimmy (4 years old) asks his Mom for more milk. They’re all out of milk, so out of sight, she pours the milk from a short fat glass into a tall thin glass. Jimmy is satisfied and gives her a cheerful “Thanks Mom!”  Jimmy is in the _____ stage, according to Piaget and is failing to understand the principle of ________.

Students would almost always prefer multiple choice items to fill-in-the-blank items because multiple choice means that there’s much less probability of a(n) _______ failure.

If I asked you to unscramble this set of letters to form a word: K I V I G N S This would be considered a well-defined problem (as opposed to ill-defined)

People are much more likely to use heuristics (rather than algorithms) to solve everyday problems.

Sometimes intelligence tests have you listen to a string of numbers, and then repeat these numbers in reverse order. This would be a test of a person’s ________ memory.

One of the most difficult things to teach little kids about language is to add suffixes to words, like “-ed” for past tense , or “-s” for plural.

Never forgetting how to ride a bike is primarily because of the operation of the  _________, while never forgetting that scary car accident you had is largely due to the operation of the _________.

A recipe would be considered a(n) ______, and would be stored in mind as a __________ memory.

Tong listens attentively in his college classes and translates the information into new memories. The main memory process that accounts for the fact that Tong is able to form new memories as information is encountered for the first time is: