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Intelligence

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An inferred characteristic usually defined as the ability to profit from experience, acquire knowledge, think abstractly, act purposefully, or adapt to changes in the environment

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G-Factor

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General intellectual ability

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Standard Deviation in IQ

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15

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4
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IQ Below 70

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Considered intellectual delay

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Average IQ

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100

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IQ Tests

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Designed to help educators place students but is not being used to establish intellectual delay or prove that a student is “gifted”

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7
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IQ between 85 and 115

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68% of people

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IQ between 55 and 145

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97.7% of people

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Wechsler IQ Test

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  1. Picture arrangement - Experience
  2. Object assembly - Experience
  3. Digital symbol - Ability
  4. Picture completion - Experience
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WASI Test

Sections: 4

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A very quick IQ test that is usually used in research to fairly accurately give IQ Scores

Sections:

  1. Vocabulary - Experience
  2. Block Design - Ability
  3. Similarities - Experience
  4. Matrix Reasoning - Ability
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Cultural affects on test scores

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  1. Attitude toward exam
  2. Motivation
  3. Rapport with test provider
  4. Competitiveness
  5. Comfort in independent problem solving - Cultural bias
  6. Familiarity with test-taking conventions - Anxiety of testing
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12
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Stereotype threat

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Burden of doubt one feels about his or her performance due to negative stereotypes about his or her group’s abilities

Can cause anxiety, reduce performance, reduce motivation, or “dis-identification”

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Emotional Intelligence

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  1. Ability to identify your own and other people’s emotions accurately
  2. Ability to express emotions clearly
  3. Ability to manage emotions in self and others

Better predictor of success than general IQ

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14
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Heritability

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.87 correlation - identical twins reared together

.72 correlation - identical twins reared apart

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Environmental Contributors to IQ

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  1. Poor prenatal care
  2. Malnutrition
  3. Exposure to toxins
  4. Stressful family experiences
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16
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Motivation

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More important than intellegence

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17
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Cognitive Ethology

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Study of cognitive processes in nonhuman animals

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Stages of Sleep

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  1. Awake (Alpha & Beta activity)
  2. Stage 1 (Theta activity)
  3. Stage 2 (Theta activity with Sleep Spindles & K Complex)
  4. Stages 3 & 4/Slow Wave Sleep (Delta activity)
  5. REM (Theta & Beta Activity)
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19
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Alpha Activity

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Relaxing ( smooth 8-12 Hz)

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Beta Activity

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Highest level of brain activity (13-20 Hz)

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Theta Activity

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Light Sleep (3.5-7.5 Hz)

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Delta Activity

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Slow waves indicating deep sleep

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Sleep Spindles

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Short bursts of high frequency activity

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24
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K Complex

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Short bursts of low frequency activity thought to keep you asleep when sensing non-urgent stimuli

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Frequency

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How many time a wave goes up and down in a second

26
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Amplitude

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How big the spikes are

27
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High levels of brain activity

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Low Amplitude/High Frequency

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Low levels of brain activity

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High Amplitude/Low Frequency

29
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Stage 1

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Theta Waves - Drifting in and out of light sleep

30
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Stage 2

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Theta Waves with spindles and K Complex

31
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Stage 3/4 (Slow Wave Sleep)

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Stage 3 - Delta Waves less than 49%

Stage 4 - Delta Waves more than 50%

32
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REM

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Theta & Beta Waves

- Paralysis & Rapid Eye Movements

33
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Sleep Apnea

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A sleep disorder caused by some kind of blockage in the respiratory system

34
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Narcolepsy

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A progressive disorder that causes irresistible periods of sleep caused by neurons that produce orexin dying off

Paralysis during waking, paralysis just prior to sleep, vivid dreams prior to sleep

35
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Cataplexy

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Complete paralysis during sleeping

36
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Sleep Paralysis

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Paralysis just prior to sleep

37
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Hypnagogic Hallucinations

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Vivid dreams prior to sleep

38
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REM Sleep Behavior Disorder

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Failure to became paralyzed during sleep

39
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Slow-Wave Sleep Disorders

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Bedwetting, sleepwalking, night terrors, sleep-related eating disorders

40
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Nocturnal Enuresis

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Bedwetting

41
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Somnambulism

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Sleep Walking

42
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Pavor Nocturnus

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Night Terrors

43
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Functions of Slow-Wave Sleep

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Consolidates implicit memory - Things that we don’t purposely try to remember

44
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Functions of REM Sleep

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Consolidates explicit memory - When you are trying to intentionally remember something

45
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Adenosine

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Limits how excited neurons can get

  • Cleared through sleeping
  • Temporarily decreased by caffeine
46
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Norepinephrine

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Noradrenaline - helps with focus

- Highest levels just after waking

47
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Orexin (AKA Hypocretine)

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Awake/Asleep switch

- Regulates sleep cycles

48
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Circadian rhythm

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Fairly consistent 24 hour sleep cycle

49
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Zeitgebers

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Stimulus that resets biological clock

- For humans, sun light

50
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Hypothalamic Nucleus

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The biological clock for body’s circadian rhythm

51
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Suprachiasmatic Nucleaus

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Part of the hypothalamic nucleus that resets biological clock

52
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Animal Intellegency

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Animals can…

  • Anticipate future events
  • Make plans
  • Coordinate activities with other animals
53
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Anthropomorphism

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The tendency to falsely attribute human qualities to nonhuman beings

54
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Anthropodenial

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The tendency to think, mistakenly, that human beings have nothing in
common with other animals

55
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Activation-synthesis theory

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Dreaming results from the cortical
synthesis and interpretation of neural
signals triggered by activity in the
lower part of the brain

Does not explain coherent, story-like dreams or non-REM dreams

56
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Psychoanalytic model

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Interpretations are often far fetched

57
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Problem-focused model

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Skepticism about the ability to solve problems during sleep

58
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Cognitive model

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Some specific claims remain to be tested

59
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Manifest content

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Includes aspects
of the dream we consciously
experience

60
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Latent content

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Includes unconscious wishes and
thoughts symbolized by the
dream

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