Test 4 Flashcards
Stereotype threat
Awareness of negative stereotypes can lead to impaired performance
Intelligence quotient (iq)
Mental age / chronological age X 100
Meritocracy
Idea that wealth, power, etc. Should solely depend on how hard you work
Incremental theory
Belief that a persons intellegance can be improved with experience and effort
Entity theory
Belief that intelligence is a stable trait that is nearly impossible to improve (false)
Weschler adults intelligence scale (WAIS)
Full scale IQ test
General ability index (GAI)
Verbal comprehension and perceptual reasoning tasks
Cognitive proficiency index (CPI)
Working memory capacity and processing speed
Fluid intelligence
The ease by which we learn new things & find solutions to unfirmiliar problems
Crystallized intelligence
Ability to use past experience & knowledge to complete a task
ROBERT sternberg
Triarch theory of intelligence:
•book smarts (analytic)
• street smarts (practical)
• creativity
Howard Gardner
Challenged notion of intelligence being a general ability
Social development
Learning to conform to social norms, learned naturally if brought up in supportive environment
Goodness of fit
Refers to match between parenting style and child temperment
Developmental psychology
Study of physical and psychological changes that occur in different stages of life
Cross sectional design
Measures grouped of people at same time but different ages
Cohort effect: people of different ages developed in different time periods
Longitudinal design
Measures same group of people at different times
Very time consuming & risk of people dropping out of study (attrition)
Developmental stages
Changes proceed through patterns of stability followed by periods of more rapid transmission called “sensitive periods”
Conception has what 2 parts?
Sperm
Ovum
Germination stage:
Zygote
Inner cluster of cells forming embryo
Outer ring of cells forming placenta