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Unit 7&11 Cognition Flashcards

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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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Flashbulb memory

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a clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event

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Encoding

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the processing of information into the memory system-for example, by extracting meaning.

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Storage

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the retention of encoded information over time

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Retrieval

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the process of getting information out of memory storage

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Eidetic memory

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photographic memory, the ability to recall images, sounds, or objects in memory with extreme precision.

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Sensory memory

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the immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system

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Short-term memory

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activated memory that holds a few items briefly, such as the seven digits of a phone number while dialing, before the information is stored or forgotten

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Working memory

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a newer understanding of short-term memory that focuses on conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual-spatial information, and of information retrieved from long-term memory

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Long-term memory

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the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experiences

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Automatic processing

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unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and frequency, and of well-learned information, such as word meanings

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Effortful processing

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encoding that requires attention and conscious effort

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Rehearsal

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the conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage

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Maintenance rehearsal

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the process of repeatedly verbalizing or thinking about a piece of information. Increases time info can stay in short term memory

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Elaborative rehearsal

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a memory technique that involves thinking about the meaning of the term to be remembered, as opposed to simply repeating the word to yourself over and over.

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Spacing effect

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the tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice

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Serial position effect

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our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list

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Visual encoding

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the encoding of picture images

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Acoustic encoding

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the encoding of sound, especially the sound of words

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Semantic encoding

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the encoding of meaning, including the meaning of words

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Imagery

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mental pictures;a powerful aid to effortful processing, especially when combined with semantic encoding

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Mnemonics

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memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices

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Chunking

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organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically

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Iconic memory

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a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second

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Echoic memory

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a momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli; if attention is elsewhere, sounds and words can still be recalled within 3 or 4 seconds

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Long-term potentiation (LTP)

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an increase in a synapse’s firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory

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Amnesia

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the loss of memory

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Anterograde amnesia

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loss of memory for events that occur after an incident causing amnesia, therefore, a person can’t store new information in their short-term memory.

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Retrograde amnesia

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loss of memory for events that occur before an incident causing amnesia, therefore, a person can’t retrieve any information from their long-term memory that existed before the incident.

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Episodic memory

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a category of long-term memory that involves the recollection of specific events, situations and experiences. Your first day of school, your first kiss, attending a friend’s birthday party and your brother’s graduation are all examples of episodic memories.

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Semantic memory

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a category of long term memory which is concerned with ideas, meanings, and concepts which are not related to personal experiences.

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Procedural memory

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a type of long-term memory of how to perform different actions and skills.

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Implicit memories

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retention independent of conscious recollection AKA procedural memory

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Explicit memories

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memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and “declare,” AKA declarative memory

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Retrieval cues

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Any stimulus that helps us recall information from our long-term memory.

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Recall

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a measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill-in-the-blank test

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Recognition

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a measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned, as on a multiple-choice test

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Relearning

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a measure of memory that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material for a second time

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Priming

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the activation, often unconsciously, of a particular associations in memory

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Proactive interference

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the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information

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Retroactive interference

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the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information

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Repression

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in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories

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Misinformation effect

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incorporating misleading information into one’s memory of an event

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Source amnesia

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attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined

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Cognition

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the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating.

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Concept

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a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.

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Prototype

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a mental image or best example of a category. Matching new items to a prototype provides a quick and easy method for sorting items into categories.

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Schema

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a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.

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Algorithm

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a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving particular problem. Contrasts with the usually speedier-but also more error prone-use of heuristics.

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Heuristic

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a simple thinking strategy that often allows is to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error prone than algorithms.

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Inductive reasoning

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the process by which a general conclusion is reached from evaluating specific observations or situations. i.e. If a child puts his or her hand into a bag of candy and withdraws three pieces, all of which are red, he or she may conclude that all the candy is red.

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Deductive reasoning

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a way of reasoning that relates two or more general concepts or conditions to a specific case. For example, a child learns that birds fly south in October, and that a robin is a bird, he will use deductive reasoning to conclude that a robin will fly south in October.

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Insight

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a sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem; it contrasts with strategy-based solutions.

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Creative

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the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas.

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Confirmation bias

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a tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence.

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Fixation

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the inability to see a problem form a new perspective, by employing a different mental set.

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Mental set

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a tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that had been successful in the past.

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Functional fixedness

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the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving.

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Representativeness heuristic

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judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead is to ignore other relevant information.

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Availability heuristic

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estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness), we presume such events are common.

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Overconfidence

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the tendency to be more confident than correct-to overestimating the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments.

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Intuition

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an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explict, conscious reasonings.

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Framing

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the ay an issue is posed; how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgments.

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Belief bias

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People will tend to accept any and all conclusions that fit in with their systems of belief, without challenge or any deep consideration of what they are actually agreeing with.

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Belief perseverance

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clinging to one’s initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed had been discredited.

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Language

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our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning

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Phonemes

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in language, the smallest distinctive sound unit.

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Morphemes

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in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word (such as a suffix)

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Grammar

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in a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others.

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Semantics

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the set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language; also, the study of meaning.

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Syntax

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the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language.

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Babbling stage

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beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language.

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One-word stage

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the stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words.

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Telegraphic speech

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early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram-“go car”-using mostly nouns and verbs.

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Linguistic determinism

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Whorf’s hypothesis that language determines the way we think.

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Intelligence

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mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.

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Factor analysis

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a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (called factors) on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie a person’s total score.

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General intelligence (g)

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a general intelligence factor that, according to Spearman and others, underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test.

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Savant syndrome

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a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill such as in computation or drawing.

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Emotional intelligence

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the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions

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Intelligence tests

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a method for assessing an individual’s mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores.

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Mental age

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a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance. Thus, a child who does as well as the average 8-year-old is said to have a mental age of 8.

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Stanford-Binet

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the widely used American revision (by Terman at Stanford University) of Binet’s original intelligence test.

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Intelligence quotient (IQ)

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defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 (thus, IQ = ma/ca x 100). On contemporary intelligence tests, the average performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100.

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Fluid intelligence

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our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood.

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Crystallized intelligence

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our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age

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Multiple intelligences

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a model of intelligence that differentiates intelligence into specific (primarily sensory) “modalities”, rather than seeing it as dominated by a single general ability.

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Aptitude tests

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tests designed to predict a person’s future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn

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Achievement tests

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tests designed to assess what a persons has learned.

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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)

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the WAIS is the most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests.

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Standardization

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defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group.

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Norms

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an understood rule for accepted and expected behavior. It prescribe “proper” behavior.

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Normal curve

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a symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many types of data; most scores fall near the mean (68 percent fall within one standard deviation of it) and fewer and fewer near the extremes.

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Reliability

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the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, or on retesting.

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Test-retest reliability

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a measure of the consistency of a psychological test or assessment.

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Split-half reliability

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refers to the determination of Reliability of a test by dividing the test items into two arbitrary groups and correlating the scores obtained on the two halves of the test.

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Validity

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The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to.

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Content validity

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The extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interests.

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Criterion

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a standard on which a judgment or decision may be based

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Predictive validity

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the success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict.; it is assessed by computing the correlation between test scores and the criterion behavior.

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Intellectual disability (mental retardation)

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a condition of limited mental ability, indicated by a intelligence score of 70 or below and difficulty in adapting to the adapting demands of life; varies from mild to profound

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Down syndrome

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a condition of intellectual disability and associated physical disorders caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21.

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giftedness

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an intellectual ability significantly higher than average. It is different from a skill, in that skills are learned or acquired behaviors.

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Heritability

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the production of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes. The heritability of a trait may vary, depending on the range of populations and environments studied

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Stereotype threat

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a self conforming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype.

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