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Psych Midterm #1 Flashcards

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Intelligence

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  • ability to learn from experience
  • creativity
  • vocab
  • reasoning
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Normal Curve

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  • 68%
  • few scores are extreme
  • average is highest
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Standard deviation

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  • amount of variation
  • mental disabilities <70
  • gifted >130
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Testing

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  • WAIS: verbal and performance
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3 elements of psychometrics

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  1. Standardization
  2. Reliability
  3. Validity
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Correlation

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  • how 2 or more variables are associated
  • does not = causation
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Spearman
Definition of ‘g’

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  • general intelligence
  • general intellectual ability, underlies all mental abilities and talents
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Thurstone

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  • 56 types of intelligence
  • 7 clusters
  • verbal fluency, comprehension, spatial abilities, perceptual speeds, numerical ability, memory, inductive reasoning
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Gardner

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  • 9 domains
  • linguistic, logical, spatial, musical, bodily kinesthetic, intrapersonal, interpersonal, naturalistic, spiritualistic
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Sternberg

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  • triarchic theory
  • Analytical, creative, practical
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Tacit knowledge

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  • procedural/practical
  • manage self and tasks
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Emotional intelligence

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  • identify emotions of self and others
  • expression
  • regulation
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Nature arguments

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  • twin studies
  • identical twins, almost identical test results
  • gene on chromosome 6 = high intelligence
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Nurture arguments

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  • prenatal care
  • malnutrition
  • family situation
  • stress
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Chitlin Test

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  • comedic attempt to show tests are culturally biased
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5 components of creativity

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  1. intrinsic motivation
  2. expertise
  3. imaginative thinking
  4. adventuresome personality
  5. creative environment
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Case study

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  • in depth study of an individual
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Cross sectional study

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  • different ages at the same time
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Longitudinal study

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  • retest same people over long period of time
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Cohort effect

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  • generational differences
  • changes results
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Zygote

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  • fertilized egg
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Embryo

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  • egg or uterus stage
  • from 2nd week to 2 months
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Teratogens

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  • toxic substances
  • lead to developmental deficiencies in embryo or fetus
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Visual preferences in newborns

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  • prefer face to bullseye
  • prefer mother
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Depth perception in newborns

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  • starts at 2 months
  • stop crawling over edge at 6 months
  • can perceive depth
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How does the brain develop?

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  • head to toe
  • back to front
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Schema

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  • concept or framework
  • organizes or interprets info
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Assimilation

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  • interpret new experiences in terms of existing schemas
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Accommodation

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  • adapting current schemas to incorporate new info
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Piaget (4 stages)

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  1. Sensorimotor (object permanence)
  2. preoperational (conservation)
  3. concrete operational (conservation)
  4. formal operational (abstract concepts)
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Zone of proximal development

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  • what learner can do with support and what learner can’t do even with support
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Harlow, monkeys

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  • wire and cloth mothers
  • prefer cloth covered without food
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Types of attachment

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  1. secure
  2. avoidant
  3. anxious
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Kohlberg 3 levels

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  1. preconventional
  2. conventional
  3. post-conventional
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Induction

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  • parents direct attention towards child’s own resources, abilities, sense of responsibility, and feelings for others
  • for correcting misbehaviour
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Erikson

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  • 8 stages
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James Marcia

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  • achievement
  • foreclosure
  • moratorium
  • diffusion
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Parenting styles

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  • authoritarian
  • authoritative
  • permissive
  • neglectful
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Later development, cognitive changes, declines

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  • fluid intelligence declines
  • crystalized intelligence stays the same
40
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Standardization

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  • uniform procedure
  • creates averages
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Reliability

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  • same score after repeated attempts
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Validity

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  • measure what it intends to measure

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