Ch: 13 (Social Psych) & Ch: 8 (Intelligence)

Question 1

The study of how people think about, influence, and relate to other people; how individuals influence groups & how groups influence individuals

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Social Psychology

Question 2

Area of social psychology that explores how people select, interpret, remember and use social information (Way people think in social situations)

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Social Cognition

Question 3

Process by which we use social stimuli to form impressions of others (How we think about others)

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Person Perception

Question 4

Generalization about a group’s characteristics that does not consider any variations from one individual to another

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Stereotype

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How we think about ourselves

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The Self as a Social Object

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Favorable views of self that are not necessarily deeply rooted in reality

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Positive illusions

Question 7

Degree to which we have positive or negative feelings about ourselves

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Self-esteem

Question 8

Tendency to take credit for our successes and deny responsibility for failures

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Self-Serving bias

Question 9

Tendency to see oneself primarily as an object in the eyes of others

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Self-Objectification

Question 10

The process by which individuals evaluate their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and abilities in relation to other people

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Social Comparison

Question 11

Mere exposure effect - the more likely we encounter someone or something, the more likely we will start liking the person or thing

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Proximity

Question 12

We like those who like us

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Acquaintance

Question 13

We tend to be attracted to those who are like us (lovers/friends) more than opposites

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Similarity

Question 14

We behave in ways that influence the people around us

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Social Behavior

Question 15

An unselfish interest in helping someone else

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Altruism (Prosocial Behavior)

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Helping for personal gain

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Egoism

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Why one person will help an individual in distress and another will not - Tendency to help when others are not compared to when others are

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The Bystander Effect

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How our behavior is influenced by other individuals and groups

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Social influence

Question 19

Change in a person’s behavior to coincide more closely with a group standard

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Conformity

Question 20

Behavior that complies with the explicit demands of the individual in authority

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Obedience

Question 21

Conformity Experiment

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Asch’s Conformity Experiment

Question 22

Obedience Experiment

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Stanley Milgram’s Experiment

Question 23

Occurs when being part of a group reduces personal identity and erodes a sense of personal responsibility

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Deindividuation

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Imitative behavior involving the spread of behavior; emotions and ideas

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Social Contagion

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All-purpose ability to do well on cognitive tasks, to solve problems and learn from experience. Reasoning and thinking skills.

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Intelligence

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Father of Intelligence Tests

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Alfred Binets

Question 27

An Individuals level of mental development relative to others

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Mental Age

Question 28

An individuals mental age divided by chronicle age multiplies by 100

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Intelligence quotiant

Question 29

Two IQ Tests:

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Stanford Binet and the Wechsler

Question 30

Symmetrical bell shaped curve, with a majority of scores falling under the middle of the possible range and few scores appearing toward the extremes of the range.

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Normal Distribution

Question 31

Test that predicts an individuals ability to learn a new skill or what the individual can accomplish with training

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Aptitude Test

Question 32

Measures what a person has learned or the skills the person has mastered

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Achievement Test

Question 33

The extent to which a test measures what is intended to measure

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Validity

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The extent to which a test yield a consistent, reproducible measure of performance

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Reliability

Question 35

Developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test, as well as creating norms, or performance standards, for the test

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Standardization

Question 36

Gardner believes that there are nine types of intelligence

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Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences

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Sternberg proposed that there are three main types of intelligence

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Sternbergs Triarchic Theory
-Analytic Intelligence
-Creative Intelligence
-Practical Intelligence

Question 38

What proportion of a group that can be explained by differences in the genes of the group’s members; the difference in IQ in a population that is attributed to genetic differences

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Heritability

Question 39

Possessing high intelligence (IQ of ___ or higher) and/or superior talent in a particular domain

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Giftedness (130)

Question 40

Conditioned of limited mental ability in which an individual has a low IQ, (usually below ___ or lower) Affects individuals functioning in everyday life

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Intellectual Disability (Mental Retardation)

Question 41

Caused by a genetic disorder or brain damage

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Organic

Question 42

No evidence of brain damage

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Cultural-Familial

Question 43

Disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using spoken or written language, which may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell or to do mathematical calculations. Have an average intelligence.

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Learning Disability

Question 44

High functioning autism, low end of spectrum, intelligence not impacted.

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Asperger’s syndrome