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Chatpter 11-12 Motivation And Intelligence Flashcards

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Definition of Standardized Test and Examples

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Same test questions for everyone, measuring same thing, general tests

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What theory would explain the motivation to watch horror movies?

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Arousal Theory

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Intrinsic motivation is an important component of?

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Achievement

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Flynn Effect is caused by?

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Rising intelligence

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T/F: Girls are more likely to outperform boys in Spelling Bees

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True

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Examples of Innate Mental Abilities

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Born with hot burns

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Subtest of WAIS

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Widely used adult test, verbal and performance (nonverbal)

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In terms of Maslow’s motivational hierarchy the higher level needs of employees are most likely to be satisfied by?

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Esteem needs

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Effects of elevated leptin

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More hungry

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Savant Syndrome

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Low abilities but exceptional skills in some things

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Aptitude tests

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Future, ability will be

EX. ACT, SAT

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Definition of a Set Point

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Body automatically maintains weight which is Pre-determined

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Definition of reliability and examples

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Measurement consistency of a test

EX. Retakes should be similar

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When hungry, blood glucose level is _____ and blood insulin level is ______

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Low, low

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Factor analysis

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Stat procedure that identifies clusters of related items contest

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Reasons for Binet and Simon designing a intelligence test

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Measure kids mental age for French schools

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Achievement test are designed to

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See what you learned so far

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Howard Gardner’s beliefs

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8 intelligences, not 1. Independent of one another

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Correlation between head size and brain size vs. intelligence

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Positive

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T/F: Boys are better in Math

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True

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Aptitude test and examples

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ACT, SAT

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Studies suggest that there is a positive correlation between intelligence and the brain’s ______

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Size

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T/F: food and water is the highest level need in Maslow’s hierarchy of human motives?

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True

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Aptitude tests are to ______ as achievement test are to ______?

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Future, so far

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Research on sexual orientation indicates that:

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Determined before birth raised by homo’s - not a factor, can’t be influence

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Definition of Validity

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Test predicts/measures what it’s supposed to

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Definition of incentives

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Positive/negative influence that motivates behavior

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Organizational psychologists are most likely to be involved in

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Workplace

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Know Lewis Terman and what he did

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Revised Binet’s original intelligence test

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For a hungry person, the consumption of food serves to:

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Psych needs

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T/F: A homosexual orientation is very persistent and difficult to change

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True

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When organisms weight rises above the set point, the organism is likely to experience a(n)

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Hunger decrease, energy increase

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Anorexia patients are most likely to have parents who?

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Alcohol, obesity, depression probs, big deal of appearance

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Theory Y explain

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Intrinsically motivated: to better one’s self

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Theory X explain

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Extrinsically motivated: praise money

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The levels of serotonin in the brain is ______ by a diet high in ______

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Boosted, carbs

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T/F: People are most likely to dislike the taste of sweet

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False

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Achievement test examples

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ISTEP

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Motivation is defined by psychologist as:

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Need or desire that energizes and directs behavior

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The first modern test of intelligence was developed where?

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France 1930

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Emotional Intlligence

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Ability to perceive, express, regulate emotions

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Anorexia nervosa is typically characterized by:

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Restricts food, underweight, but still feel fat

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T/F: many sexual active American adolescents fail to avoid pregnancy because they are ignorant concerning basic human reproductive functioning.

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True

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Which profession is most directly involved in the application of psychology principals to the work place?

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Industrial organizational

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The similarity between the intelligence test scores of identical twins raised apart is?

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About the same IQ

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IQ equation

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Mental age/chronological age x 100

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Halo errors

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When evaluation by employer is biased

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Simon LeVay discovered that a cluster of neural cells located in the ________ was _________ in homosexual men than in heterosexual men.

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Hypothalamus, smaller

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The best indicator of infants intellectual aptitude is their?

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Parental guidance

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Down syndrome is caused by what?

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Extra chromosome in genetic make-up

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Intelligence is?

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Capacity to understand the world & the resourcefulness to cope with challenges

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Spearman’s G Factor refers to?

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General intelligence

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Incentives examples

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Praise, aroma of fresh food, sight of sun

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360-degree feed back

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Rating self & others rating you

54
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Which pair of individuals is most likely to receive similar intelligence test scores?

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Twins

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A need refers to what?

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S-Factor

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T/F: Instinctive behavior is unlearned.

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True

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What brain structure detects sex hormone levels and activates sexual arousal?

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Hypothalamus

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Homeostasis refers to what?

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Constant state-body chemistry

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Increasing years of schooling over the last half century have most like contributed to what?

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Raising IQ

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What would happen if you electrically stimulated the ladder hypothalamus of a well fed lab rat?

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Begin to eat

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Research on the sexual response cycle indicates what?

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4 stages

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