unit 5 quizizz 1 Flashcards
what is the availability heuristic
a type of cognitive bias that helps us make fast but sometimes incorrect assessments
what is not one of Howard Gardners multiple intelligences
practical
what is implicit memory
the information that we do not intentionally store which is unintentionally memorized
what is explicit memory
the intentional recollection of information, experiences, or concepts
paired associate learning
learning and remembering the associations between stimuli that are artificially associated
hypothetical thinking
imagining possibilities and exploring their consequences
divergent thinking
utilizing the mind to create multiple ideas or solutions to a single problem
what is the standardization sample
the people used to represent the population for whom the test was intended
what did chomsky do for childhood language
when the child begins hearing language, appropriate settings or standards regarding the rules of that language are activated in the Childs language acquisition device
which test is designed to measure an individuals knowledge of a subject
achievement
attach meaning to info through deep processing to remember
elaborative rehearsal
what is a savant
a person with lower than avg intelligence who has an amazing mental skill
what is the representativeness heuristic
occurs when we estimate the probability of an event based on how similar it is to a known situation
what is a test that measures a persons mastery and knowledge of a subject
achievement test
what is the most commonly used individual intelligence test
wechsler intelligence scales
what is the “ed” in helped and called
a morpheme
if a test is reliable…
it yields consistent results
what is episodic memory
the ability to learn, store, and retrieve info about personal experiences
what is procedural memory
remembering how to perform actions
what is
semantic memory
conscious long term memory used for meaning, understanding, and conceptual facts
what is declarative memory
the conscious recollection of experiences, events, and information used in everyday living
what is conformation bias
looking for information that is consistent with ones beliefs
what is a achievement test
a test used to examine someones knowledge on a specific skill
what is an aptitude test
a test used to determine an individuals skill or weakness
what did spearman argue
that intelligence could be boiled down to one ability known as general intelligence
what is introverted intelligence
focus on ones own thoughts
what is general intelligence
common knowledge
Atkinson and shiffrin did what
made the three stage model
terms in the three stage model
sensory, short term, and long term memory
what kind of forgetting is tip of the tongue phenomenon
retrieval failure
what is encoding failure
when info fails to be transferred and stored in the memory system
what is retrieval failure
info in a long term memory cannot be accessed
what is motivated forgetting
people forget things because they do not want to remember them
who would likely say that children generalize their words
chomsky
who was bf skinner
behaviorist theory, language acquired through operant conditioning (reinforcement)
who was bejaman lee whorf
proposed that language influences thought
who was hermann ebbinghaus
discovered the forgetting curve and spacing effect
primacy effect
a cognitive bias that refers to an individuals tendency to better remember the first piece of information that they encounter
sensory memory
mental representation of how environmental events process with the five senses
what is whorfs hypothesis
language influences the way a person thinks
what is cognitive accommodation
development and alteration of ones learning knowledge when encountering new situations
what is functional fixedness
a bias where you can only see objects as working in a particular way
what is proactive interference
when old memories interfere with the retrieval of new ones
retroactive interference
when newer memories interfere with the retrieval of old ones
various vowel sounds that differ per language
phonemes
formula for iq
mental age/ actual age x 100
validity means
a test measures what it is supposed to measure
what is framing
how an option is presented
what is belief bias
judging the validity of a claim based on how believable it is to them
what is confirmation bias
new info confirms preexisting beliefs and opinions
the magical number seven plus or minus two
short term memory
construct validity
evaluates how well the test measures the concept that it is intended to measure
content validity
evaluates how well a test covers all relevant parts of the topic that it wants to measure
what point do people usually fall within 30 points of on the iq score
100
automatic processing
the type of thinking that does not involve any effort
priming
when exposure to a stimulus influences a response to the prompt without awareness of a connection
the serial position effect
the tendency to remember the first and last items in a list better than middle ones
spacing effect
repetitions spaced in time tend to produce stronger memories than repetitions massed closer in time together
