psych mesh and intelligence

Question 1

when doing a hard task, and CNS is aroused, you can perform worse because you’re too aroused and it’s past the point of optimal performance

Answer 1

Yerke’s-Dodson Law

Question 2

diminishes glucose, partly by converting it to fat

Answer 2

insulin

Question 3

Secretes appetite-suppressing and appetite-stimulating hormones

Answer 3

hypothalamus

Question 4

hunger arousing hormone secreted by the stomach

Answer 4

ghrelin

Question 5

point at which weight thermostat is set,

Answer 5

set point

Question 6

The body’s resting rate of energy expenditure

Answer 6

basal metabolic rate

Question 7

Selye’s concert of body’s adaptive response to stress in 3 phases - alarm, resistance, exhaustion

Answer 7

general adaptation syndrome

Question 8

linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, intrapersonal, interpersonal, naturalist, existential

Answer 8

gardner’s multiple intelligences

Question 9

condition in which person is otherwise limited in mental ability has exceptional specific skill

Answer 9

savant syndrome

Question 10

analytical, creative, practical

Answer 10

Sternberg’s 3

Question 11

defining uniform testing procedures and meaningful scores by comparison with performance of pretested group

Answer 11

standardization

Question 12

accumulated knowledge, increases with age

Answer 12

crystallized intelligence

Question 13

ability to reason speedily and abstractly, tends to decrease with age

Answer 13

fluid intelligence