PYS101 L08 Key Terms Flashcards
A form of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from certain premises; if the premises are true, the conclusion must be true.
Deductive reasoning
The Intelligence Quotient (IQ) Test designed for American children.
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
The tendency to look for or pay attention only to information that confirms one’s own belief.
Confirmation bias
A proposition to support a conclusion.
Premise
Creativity in transferring skills to new situations.
Experiential (creative) intelligence
The process of identifying the best right answer or conclusion from the information presented on an intelligence test or college entrance exam.
Formal reasoning
A mental category that groups objects, relations, activities, abstractions, or qualities having common properties.
Concept
An inferred characteristic of an individual, usually defined as the ability to profit from experience, acquire knowledge, think abstractly, act purposefully, or adapt to changes in the environment.
Intelligence
The ability to identify your own and other people’s emotions accurately, express your emotions clearly, and regulate emotions in yourself and others.
Emotional intelligence
A theory of intelligence that emphasizes information processing strategies, the ability to creatively transfer skills to new situations, and the practical application of intelligence.
Triarchic [try-ARE-kick] theory of intelligence
An especially representative example of a concept.
Prototype
The drawing of conclusions or inferences from observations, facts, or assumptions.
Reasoning
The tendency to overestimate one’s ability to have predicted an event once the outcome is known; the “I knew it all along” phenomenon.
Hindsight bias
Learning that occurs when you acquire knowledge about something without being aware of how you did so and without being able to state exactly what it is you have learned.
Implicit learning
A measure of mental development expressed in terms of the average mental ability at a given age.
Mental age (MA)
