Exam 3 Flashcards
Standardization
Tests given in a specific sort of way.
Validity
Does the test measure what it’s supposed to?
Reliability
Does the test give consistent results
Jensen
Said that blacks were ‘inferior’ to whites
Binet
The first legitimate intelligence test. For school children that needed help.
Terman
First American intelligence test.
Stanford-Binet
The 2nd most frequently use IQ test today.
Weschler
The most used IQ test today
Reaction Range
Genetically determined limits on IQ
E.Q.
From Goleman, the quotient on how we relate to others.
Sternberg’s Theory of Intelligence
Triarchic Theory: Practical, Creative, and Analytical Intelligence
Heuristics
Trying to take a short cut to get to a solution.
Types of Heuristics
Sub-Goals, Analogies, Hill Climbing, Changing Representation
Sub-Goals
Shorter goals to get to a larger goal
Analogies
Look for a solution in a similar problem
Hill Climbing Heuristic
Take the best option whenever there is a choice
Changing Representation
Pros and Cons of a problem, solving another way.
Problems of inducing structure
Analogy
Problems of arrangement
Anagrams
Problems of transformation
Series of Transformation
Barriers to effective problem solving
Irrelevant information, functional fixedness, mental set, Unnecessary Constrains, Emotional constraints, cultural constraints
Concept
Representation of a class of like objects
Prototype Concept
Best example of a concept
Denotative Concept
The exact definition of a concept
Connotative Concept
What a concept means to you or specific people.
Sternberg’s Stage Model of Problem Solving
Identify, Define the problem, Strategy formulation, Problem Representation, Strategy construction, Monitoring, Evaluation
Availability Heuristics
Judge something as being probably based on personal experiences
Representative Heuristics
How similar an event is to the prototype. Tend to underestimate the likelihood of something if it doesn’t look like the prototype.
Gambler’s Fallacy
An event is more likely to happen if it hasn’t happened for a while
Overstimate Improbably
Overestimate the likelihood of something happening if its dramatic and gets media attention.
Loss Aversion
We feel a bigger impact from something negative than we feel from a comparable positive event.
Ignoring Base Rates
Ignoring the most common frequency of something.
Dual Processing Theory
How something can occur two different ways.
Insight
Seeing the problem in a new way
Field Dependence
When someone looks to the environment to solve a problem
Field Independence
Looks to internal cues to solve a problem
Nesbitt
Showed a picture of the ocean to a group of people and asked what they noticed.
Holistic Cognitive Style
Notices the big picture and background. Southeast Asia.
Analytical Cognitive Style
Looking at small details and foreground. America/industrialized countries
Psychometrics
Study of testing psychological issues
Norms
Averages
Test-Retest reliability
Testing multiple times to get the same results
Internal Reliability
Comparing odd and even questions to get the same results
Savant Syndrome
Scoring mentally low in all but one category.
Content Validity
Do the questions look relevant to the topic?
Criterion Validity
Does the score correlate with a real life measure?
Construct Validity
Does this test measure an abstract or theoretical measure?
Genetics are responsible for how much of intelligence?
50-60%
Enriched Environment
Exposure to things that can improve your IQ
Flynn Effect
Kids are getting smarter because they have more access to information.
Head Start
At Risk kids start before normal to compensate for unavailable resources.
Cultural Disadvantage
Differences in environment and schools
Cultural Bias
Tests aren’t relevant to minorities
Gardner
Had a theory of multiple intelligences
Factors of Goleman’s EQ
Know thyself, keep emotions in check, empathy, motivation and setting goals, social skills and managing relationships
Motivation
Some need energizes us to act in a certain way.
Need
Physiological deprivation
Homeostasis
Sense of balance
Incentive
When the environment sends us towards a particular goal.
Drive Theory
Motivated from an internal state
Incentive Theory
External roles motivate behavior
Evolutionary Theory
Engage in behavior that perpetuate the species
Sexual Orientation
What gender someone is attracted to.
Freud on Sexual Orientation
Sexual orientation comes from environment
Biological on Sexual Orientation
Hormonal, Prenatal influences, Brain differences
Task Leaders
What do we need to get done, goal oriented
Maintenance Leaders
Morale, teamwork driven
McGregor
Theories on how managers treat their workers
McGregor Theory X
Supervisors have a lot of control. Can’t trust workers, so you need rules.
McGregor Theory Y
Leaders have positive feelings of workers, more feelings of support
McGregor Theory Z
Supervisors think about workers as family
Atkinson Theory of Motivation
Personality, Probably Success, and Rewards influence motivation
Cognitive on Emotion
What we think about a situation influences how we experience it.
Physiological on Emotion
Body aspects of emotion
Behavioral on Emotion
How we act
Cultural on Emotion
Experiencing and Expressing emotions
James-Lange Theory of Emotion
Experience physiological response first, then emotional response.
Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion
Physiological and emotional response happen instantaneously.
Schacter-Two Factor Theory of Emotion
Emotion happens in 2 steps: Physiological arousal and cognitive, then emotion
Zjonic
Emotional first, then cognitively label afterwards
Adaptation Level Principle
Compare current situation to the past.
Relative Depravation Principle
Compare ourselves to someone else
Hedonic Adaptation Principle
We change our standards on how we define happiness.
Kohlberg
Development of Morals, 3 stages in order, and not everyone gets to the last one. Tested by moral dilemmas.
Pre-Conventional Stage
Doing things for yourself and based on self-interest.
Pre-Conventional Stage 1
Punishment Orientation
Pre-Conventional Stage 2
Reward Orientation
Conventional Stage
Doing things for the flow of society
Conventional Stage 3
Gains approval, strays from disapproval