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What are attributions

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the inferences people make about the causes of events and behaviours

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What is a relationship-enhancing attribution

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an attribution that provides a positive explanation for partner behaviour

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What is a relationship-threatening attribution

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an attribution that provides a negative explanation for partner behaviour

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Describe the components of autonomic processing

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unconscious, uncontrolled, involuntary, fast, effortless, and unlimited

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Describe the components of controlled processing

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conscious, intentional, voluntary, slow, effortful, and limited

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Autonomic processing is called system ____ while controlled processing is called system ____

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autonomic: system 1
controlled: system 2

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What is the Stroop effect

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the difficulty to name a physical colour when it is used to spell the name of a different colour

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Reading words is an _____________ process

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autonomic

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Why is the Stroop effect so prominent

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since reading words is an autonomic process, the quick and uncontrolled processing interferes with attempts to identify the physical colour

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What are the two processes involved in trying NOT to think about something

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Intentional (controlled) search for distractions
Autonomic monitoring for occurrence of thought

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What is the ironic effect of mental control

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controlled processes are MORE prone to distraction

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What system is involved in autonomic processing

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the CS (contention scheduling system)

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What system is involved in controlled processing

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the SAS (supervisory attention system)

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What does the connection scheduling system (CS) control

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controls well-learned actions
- tends to require fewer resources but is much more prone to error

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What does the supervisory attention system (SAS) control

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controls the conscious attention needed for new tasks
- tends to be MORE accurate

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In impersonal dilemmas, how do most people react?

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most exert a utilitarian judgement

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In personal dilemmas, how do most people react?

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most people exert deontological judgment

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What is the explanation behind the difference in reactions between impersonal and personal dilemmas

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impersonal dilemmas activate brain regions of controlled reasoning, while personal dilemmas activate regions of the brain associated with emotion (which is automatic)

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What is the moral intuitionist model

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moral judgement is the result of quick, autonomic evaluations, not the deliberate outcome of a reasoning process

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Autonomic processing allows us to make ____________ _______________ to make decisions about the world

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mental shortcuts

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What are the 5 limitations of the mental shortcuts taken by autonomic processing

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representativeness heuristic
availability heuristic
anchoring heuristic
framing effects
confirmation bias

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What is representative heuristic

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judging the probability that something belongs to a specific group or classification based on how similar it is to the preconceived prototype we hold in our brains

(ie. athletic, good looking man with a sports car is more likely to be perceived as a football player than a nurse)

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What does representative heuristic often involve

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base rate neglect

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What is conjunction fallacy

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The association between a person and attribution based on a single piece of information

(ie. a man rides a roller coaster with his son, is he just a man, or a man who is a thrill seeker - most would pick the latter based on the previous scenario given even though that may not be the case)

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What is availability heuristic

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judging the frequency of an event based on how easily examples come to mind

(ie. are there more words in English that begin with R or have R as the third letter)

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What often occurs as a result of availability heuristic

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probability neglect

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What are anchoring effects

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the tendency to rely on the first piece of information when making decisions

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What are framing effects

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The way we present or frame an issue can directly affect our decisions and judgement
- particularly averse to loss

(ie. 90% of student rate condom usage as effective when it is marked as “95% effective”, but only 40% of students rated it effective when labelled “5% ineffective”

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What is conformation bias

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tendency to search for, evaluate, and recall information based on our predetermined beliefs or hypotheses

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Deliberate thinkers (vs intuitive thinkers) tend to be ______ receptive to misinformation

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less

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What is a concept

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the mental representation of an object, event, or idea

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What term is used in psychology to clump together concepts of similar nature

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categories

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What is the act of thinking around interrelated concepts called

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categorization

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What is rule-based categorization

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categorizing a set of objects or events based on rules or by a specific set of features

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What is an example of a rule-based categorization

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the dictionary definition
(ie. a triangle is defined as a figure having three angles and three sides, therefore the dictionary definition classifies it as a shape)

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What is graded-membership

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the observation that some concepts appear to make better category members than others

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What is an exemplar

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a specific example that best fits a category

38
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What is a prototype

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mental representation of an average category member

39
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What is the difference between exemplar and prototype

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exemplar is a real-life example, while a prototype is a mental image that can be comprised of many separate features to build the ideal mental representation of a concept or category

40
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What does a semantic network represent

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Connections among ideas and concepts
- a semantic network is an interconnected set of nodes and the links that join them form a category

41
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What is the most commonly used level in the semantic network hierarchy

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basic-level category

42
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What features makes the basic-level category unique on the semantic network hierarchy

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  • used most often in conversation
  • easiest to pronounce
  • level at which prototypes still exist
  • level at which most thinking occurs
43
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What is a superordinate category (with an example)

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the broadest form of category
(ie. saying there’s an animal in the backyard instead of saying there’s a bird in the backyard)

44
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What is a subordinate-level category (with an example)

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the more specific form of category
(ie. saying there’s a grey jay in the backyard instead of saying there’s a bird in the backyard)

45
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What is priming

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the activation of individual concepts in long term memory

46
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What is category specific visual agnosia (CSVA)

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when damage to the temporal lobe causes the impaired ability to recognize some categories, while others remain unaffected

47
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What is the study of folk biology

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the ways people in different communities and cultures think about the natural world in their daily lives

48
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What has folk biology proven about basic-level categorization

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it is dependant on cultural learning

49
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What is linguistic relativity

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the theory that the language we use determines how we understand and categorize information

50
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Certain objects and events are likely to be associated in clusters, proven by _____________

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priming

51
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Westernized individuals focus more on ____________, whereas Easternized individuals focus more on __________

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western: individual focal objects
eastern: surroundings and how objects are interrelated

52
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What is the Whorifan hypothesis

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the idea that language influences how we understand the world

53
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Who began the systematic attempt to measure intelligence in the modern era

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Francis Galton

54
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What was Galton’s belief about intelligence measures

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he believed since people learn from their senses, people with superior sensory abilities would obtain more knowledge about the world

55
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What are anthropometrics, and who studied intelligence using them

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methods of measuring physical and mental variations in humans
- Francis Galton

56
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What did Binet define as intelligence

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the ability to think, understand, reason, and adapt to overcome obstacles

57
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What is mental age

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the average intellectual ability score of children of a specific age

58
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What was the Stanford-Binet test defined as by Terman, and is this definition accurate

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a test to measure innate levels of intelligence
- not an accurate name, because Binet was measuring intellectual ability at a certain point, not from the innate level

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What is intelligence quotient (IQ) defined as

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found by taking a person’s mental age, dividing it by their actual age, and multiplying by 100
- therefore standard IQ is 100

60
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What is the deviation IQ

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IQ measured in adults
- calculated by taking the result of one’s test score and comparing it to others of the same age

61
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What is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

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the most common test used in today’s world for determining intelligence in both youth and adults

62
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John Raven developed Raven’s Progressive Matrices; what is this model?

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an intelligence test based only on pictures, therefore eliminating language as a determining factor of results

63
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Who coined the term eugenics (good genes)

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Francis Galton

64
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What is stereotype threat

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when negative stereotypes about a group result in members underperforming on ability tests

65
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What are the two reasons that stereotype threat influence performance ability

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increases physiological arousal (physical anxiety)
causes one to pay more attention to what they’re doing, leading to overanalyzing and less capability to focus

66
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People hold on to one of two theories about the nature of intelligence, what are these two theories

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entity theory: the idea that intelligence is a fixed characteristic and cannot be changed
incremental theory: the belief that intelligence can be influenced by experiences, practice, and effort

67
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What was Charles Spearman’s work related to

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he developed techniques used to determine correlations among multiple measures of intelligence

ie. vocab, reading comprehension, and verbal reasoning would all be associated with verbal intelligence

68
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What did Spearman hypothesize

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general intelligence factor (abbreviated as “g”)
- g represented a persons “mental energy”, meaning some had brains more powerful than others

69
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Did Spearman believe that “g” fully represented intelligence

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no, he believe g wasn’t the full extent of ones intelligence

70
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What is not accounted for in relation to “g”

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ones skills

71
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What did Spearman use to define specific skill-based intelligent

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”s”

72
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Who created the first influential theory of multiple intelligences

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Louis Thurstone

73
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What was Louis Thurstones test

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examined scores of general intelligence using factor analysis, and found 7 clusters of what he termed “primary mental abilities”

74
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What were Thurstone’s determined 7 primary mental abilities

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word fluency
verbal comprehension
numeric abilities
spatial visualization
memory
perceptual speed
reasoning

75
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What did Thurstone argue in relation to “g”

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there was no “g”, and intelligence needed to be understood at the level of the 7 primary mental abilities

76
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What does the general hierarchial model display

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describes how our lowest-level abilities are nested within a middle level that roughly corresponds to Thurstone’s primary mental abilities, which are nested within a general intelligence

77
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What is fluid intelligence

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type of intelligence used in solving new problems and learning new information

78
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What is an example of a method used to study fluid intelligence

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Raven’s Progressive Matrices

79
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What is crystallized intelligence

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type of intelligence that draws upon past experiences and knowledge

80
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What type of tests study crystal intelligence

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vocabulary and general knowledge tests

81
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If you have greater fluid intelligence, what does that mean?

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you have a greater ability to learn and process new info

82
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How can greater fluid knowledge lead to greater crystallized knowledge

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with greater fluid knowledge, you can learn more and process new things, turning these new experiences into past experiences forms crystallized knowledge

83
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Fluid intelligence ___________ with age, while crystallized intelligence __________ with age

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decreases
stabilizes/increases

84
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Lower proficiency in fluid intelligence results from reduced function of the _________________ ____________

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prefrontal cortex

85
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Why does reduced function in the prefrontal cortex NOT reduce crystallized knowledge

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the prefrontal cortex doesn’t involve long term memory

86
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What type of theory did Howard Gardener propose

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a theory of multiple intelligences

87
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What defines Gardener’s theory of multiple intelligences

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a model that there are 7 (now at least 9) forms of intelligence each independent from each other

88
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What are the 9 forms of intelligence proposed by Gardner

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  1. verbal/linguistic
  2. logical/mathematical
  3. visuospatial
  4. bodily/kinesthetic
  5. musical/rhythmical
  6. interpersonal
  7. self/intrapersonal
  8. natural
  9. existential
89
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Are learning styles a real thing?

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no

90
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What type of setting is Gardner’s principle application nowadays

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education/school

91
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There is _________ variability in male IQ scores compared to female

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more

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