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Unit 5: Cognitive Psychology Flashcards

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Cognition

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The mental processes involved in gaining knowledge and comprehension
+ Thinking
+ Knowing
+ Remembering
+ Judging
+ Problem-solving

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Explicit memory

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Declarative memory we work to remember

Subtypes:

Semantic (meaning)- Earth is the 3rd rock(planet) from the sun
Episodic- Remembering getting my first dog as a pet

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Implicit memory

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Non -declarative memory

Subtype:

Procedural- ability to perform certain tasks without conscious awareness

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Memory

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The persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information

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Measures of explicit memory

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+Recall

+Recognition

+Relearning

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Memory process

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Encode -> Storage -> Retrieval

+ Getting information in

+ Retaining encoded information

+ Get info out of memory

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The Attkinson-Shiffrin

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Three-stage model of memory includes

a) sensory memory
b) short term memory
c) long-term memory

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Sensory Memory

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+ Iconic- fleeting photographic visual (1/2 of asec)

+ Echoic- fleeting auditory (3-4 secs)

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Properspective Memory

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The memory for tasks to be completed in the future
+ Ex. Sending an email, paying a bill, taking a medication

Dependent on short and long term memory

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Automatic processing

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Unconscious encoding of incidental information such as…
+ Space
+ Time
+ Frequency (how often)

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Parallel processing

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Ability to deal with multiple stimuli simultaneously

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Effortful processing

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Encoding that requires attention & conscious effort

+ Spacing effect (over time..)
(aka distributed practice)
+ serial position effect (recall tendency to remember the first and last items in a list better than those in the middle, primacy and recency effects)

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Semantic memory

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Conscious long-term memory for meaning, understanding, and conceptual facts about the world

Ex. Remembering the meaning of a situation rather than specific details

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George Miker

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The number of ____ humans can hold in their working memory

+ 7 digits
+ 6 letters
+ 5 words

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Hippocampus and frontal lobe

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Processes explicit memories for storage
+ sematics (facts)
+ episodics (experienced events)

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Cerebellum and basal

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Ganglia- implicit memories
+ skills, procedures
+ associations (classical conditioning)

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Amygdala

flashbulb memories

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involved with the experiencing of emotions.
+ Anger, aggression, fear, and stress are all common emotional triggers.

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  1. Long-term potetiation (LTP)
  2. Block LTP
  3. Mimic LTP
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  1. increase in synaptic firing
  2. limit learning
  3. increase learning (more rehearse, more you’ll learn)
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Context dependent memory

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Remembering is dependent upon enviroment

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State dependent memory

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+ Mood congruent
ex. If bad mood then recall bad events, if good mood then recall good events

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Retrograde amnesia

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ANterog`+ cannot retrieve past information
+ what people usually think of as amnesia

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Anterograde Amnesia

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+ cannot form new memories
BUT!
+ Non-verbal tasks- remembers where to find waldo
+ Procedural skills - how to use a new smartphone

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Encoding Failure

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the information doesn’t get into memory. Encoding failures can occur because of inattention to the target information or interference when the target information is presented.

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Retrival failure

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Ever had something at the tip of your tongue?

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Proactive interference

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Prior learning disrupts recall of new info
+ ex. guy confusing gf’s name with his old ex’s

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Retroactive interference

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New learning disrupts the recall of old learning

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How to remember ?

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Procative
Old disrupts new
Retroactive
New disrupts old

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Motivated forgetting

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+ Repression: banish uncomfortable memories

+ Reality- likely uncommon

EMOTIONAL EVENTS POWERFUL

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Construction errors

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Reconsolidation: retrieved memories are altered

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Misinformation effects

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Misleading info distorts one’s memory of an event
+ ex. “About how fast were the cars going when they smashed into eachother”
+ “About how fast were the cars going when the accident occured”

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Source Amnesia

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Faulty memory for when or how the info was learned or imagined
+ex. comedian accidentally stealing a joke

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Source monitoring

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Keeping track of where you learned something

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Internal source monitoring failure

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Ex. confusing dreams for reality

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source monitoring failure

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Inaccurately identifying the source of the info

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Concept

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categories of ideas, objects, events with common properties

x Helps us organize info in our brains, but concepts also influence our thoughts and behaviors

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Protypes

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+ Best examples of a category
+ More than just visual:
+ prejudice
+ ex. heart attack symptoms wrongfully identified

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Convergent thinking

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Narrow down to best solution
+ ex. SAT, ACT

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Divergent thinking

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consider new ideas, options
+ creativity
+ frontal lobe

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Creativity

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+ expertise
+ imaginative
+ venturesome
+ intrinsically motivated
+ enviroment

40
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algorithm

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A step by step procedure to find a solution
+ex. find all the words in the group of letters
SLOYOCHPYG

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Heuristic

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Instead of algorithm
+ thinking strategy for quick judgements and problem solving
+ ex. ch usually together while yy is not

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Insight

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The act or result of apprehending the inner nature of things or of seeing intuitively
+ frontal lobe activity

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confirmation bias

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choosing only to see what we believe
+ fixation: cannot change perception

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Belief perseverance

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Clinging onto belief even after shown that they’re wrong

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Mental set

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Usage of the same approach to problems (problem solving)

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Intuition

Data isn’t always followed when solving problems

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Automatic, no conscience thought

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Representativeness heuristic

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When you erroneously think that two events or objects are more correlated than they actually are

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Availability heuristic

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Estimating likehood of an event based upon mental availability
+ ex. ppl fear terrorist attacks (readily available image)
+fear of flying - reality: cars are more dangerous

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Common uses for heuristics

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+ reduces mental effort
+ simplify complex or difficult questions
+ help with problem solving

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The dunning-krugger

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The tendency for unskilled individuals to overestimate their own ability, and the tendency for experts to underestimate themselves

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Framing

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Drawing different conclusions from the same information, depending on how it is presented
+ex. “undocumented workers” vs “illegal aliens”
+ WORDING MATTERS

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Predictable world bias

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tendency to perceive order where no order exist
+ ex. gambling

reality: its just chance

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Just world hypothesis

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Assumption that people get what they deserve
+ based on the belief that the world is fair

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Phoemes

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smallest unit of sounds
+ ex. BAT - b,a,t
+ THAT - th, at

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Morpehemes

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smallest unit with meaning
+ ex. readers - “read” + “er” + “s”

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Noam Chomsky Theory

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Language is a trait that has survival advantage
+ all humans are predisposed to learn language/grammar
+ all languages have nouns, verbs, adjectives
+ all children start speaking nouns

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Receptive language

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ability to understand

(lot of it is latent)

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Critical language learning period

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+ No language before age 7 cannot master any language
+ exposure to “low quality” language = less language skill
+ ex. 4yr olds in classroom with 3 yr olds

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What is language perceived as?

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Indivisible - : consisting of one whole whose parts cannot be divided or treated individually

Reality: parallel processing

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Sapir whorf hypothesis

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the grammatical and more verbal structure of a person’s language influences how they perceive the world

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Linguistic relativism

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languages shapes basic ideas
+ hard: language determines how you think
+ ex. some indigenous languages have no past tense

+ soft: languages influences how you think
+ ex: English has one word for love, ancient Greek - six words

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Linguistic influence

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languages affect our thinking
+ bilingualism:
+different language, different test results
+different emotions, different language

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Fluid intelligence

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+ global capacity to reason
+ ability to learn new things
+ think abstractly to solve problems

64
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Crystallized intelligence

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+ prior learning and past experiences
+ based on facts
+ increases with age

65
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Intelligence

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Ability to learn from experiences, solve problems, use knowledge to adapt to new situations

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Charles spearman

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General intelligence: underlies all mental abilities, measured in any intelligence test called g
+ single intelligence score
+based upon factor analysis

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Goal of factor analysis

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To model the interrelatioships among items

68
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L.L Thurnstone

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+ skeptical of single intelligence score
+ Used 56 tests to identify 7 primal mental abilities
+results: scoring high on 1 test = high scores on all tests

69
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Howard Gardner

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+ multiple intelligences
+ eight-semi independent intelligence
+do not have to exist together can be individual

70
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Robert Sternberg

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Three intelligences (triarchic)
+ analytical - intelligence tests, predict school grades well
+ creative- innovation, ability to adapt to new situations, create more ideas
+ practical- everyday tasks, negotiating with a salesperson

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Criticism of multiple intelligences

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+ Research has confirmed g
+ high cognitive ability predicts academic achievements
BUT!
+ success equals intelligence and grit

72
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Savant Syndrome

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+ limited mental ability-low intelligence score
+specific skill-genius
+ most are men
+ many have ASD

73
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Aquired savant syndrome

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the presentation of (often extraordinary) scholarly skills that can emerge after a non-disabled individual suffers a traumatic brain injury or illness

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Emotional intelligence

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Understanding and navigating social situations

not really an intelligence

75
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Aptitude test

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predict future performance, capacity to learn

76
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Achievement test

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show what you have learned
+ ex. AP test

77
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Alfred Binet

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Predicting school achievement
+ assumed that all children have same intelligence development
+ score = mental age: measure of intelligence based on development
+ ex. A “bright” 8yr old might have a mental age of 10
+ measured: aptitude

78
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Lewis Terman

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published the individual intelligence test widely used in the United States, the Stanford-Binet test.

79
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IQ equation

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10 = mental age/chronological age x 100

80
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David Wechler

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Wechsler viewed intelligence as an effect rather than a cause, and asserted that non-intellective factors, such as personality, contribute to the development of each person’s intelligence.

+ WAIS intelligence score for adults
+ WISC intelligence score for children

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Standardization

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+ uniform procedures
+ comparison with a pre-test group

82
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Normal deviation

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+ aka bell curve
+ average IQ always 100
+ 2 standard deviations covers 70-130

83
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Reliability

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How consistent results are

84
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Constant validity

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Does the test measure what it is supposed to?

85
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Predictive validity

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does the test predict future behaviour

86
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IQ test validity

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+ relatively
+ more predictive of young children
+ correlation weakens with age

87
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Executive functioning

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working memory + decision making ( frontal lobe )
+ think CEO = chief executive officer

88
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priming

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exposure to one stimulus influences a response to a subsequent stimulus, without conscious guidance or intention

+ ex. When you hear the word “chair,” you might start to feel tired.

89
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interpersonal

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relating to relationships or communication between people:

90
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intrapersonal

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occurring within the individual mind or self

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