congnition is a synonym for |
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thinking |
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When you took your college entrance exam, students across the country took the same test at the same time with the same insturctions. Whar characteristic of a good psychological test do these similarites reflect? |
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standardization |
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What number reflects the amount of differences in a population attribtable to genetic influences? |
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heritability |
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The individual test most often given to adults is the |
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the WAIS-III |
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What is one criticism of the conslusions offered by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray in the Bell Curve? |
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They failed to distinguish between correlation and causation |
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According to the Atkinson and Shiffrin model of memory, what happens when we actively think about something that we have previously learned? |
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The memory is recalled from LTM and is placed in STM |
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What are the metal categories representing activites, objects, qualities or situations that share some common charactieristics? |
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Concepts |
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Psychological tests that yeild relativily consisten results are said to be |
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reliable |
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Ted and Jessica's son was recently diagnosed as mentally retarded. What is his likely deree of retardation? |
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Mild |
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Which of the following questions would be more likely to produce divergent thinking? |
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"How many uses can you think of for a stapler?" |
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A form of intelligence that refers to how effectibely people perceive and understand their own feelings and the feelings of otthers, is ______ intelligence. |
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emotional |
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On MOnday, Sal took a test developed to measre levels of sensation seeking and obtained a score of 13; he took the same test one week later and obtained the same score. Based on this information, you can most accurately conclude that the testis likely to be |
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reliable |
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The Biney and Simon intelligence test measured children on what new concept? |
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mental age |
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What problem-solving stratefies dont guarantee solutions but make efficien use of time? |
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heuristics |
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Which of these might be an examle of a performace item on the Wechsler tests of intelligence? |
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using blocks to make a design like the one shown in a picture |
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Sally is enrolled in a high school geomety course, which she describes as "drawing figures and figuring drawins." In a typical class, students draw geometric figures and use a formula to calculate an aspect of the figure such as its area. Each time Sally uses a formula she is making use of what psychologists. call_____ |
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algorithms |
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What was the original purpose of the first wel established test of intelligence? |
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to select those children who could benefit from classes for slow learners |
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Geoffrey has a Stanford-Binet IQ score of 60 and deficits in adaptive behaior. He is likely to be considered _____. |
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mildly retarded |
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The theory of multiple intelligences was proposed by ____. |
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Gardner |
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Charles Spearman believed that intelligence is comosed of |
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general intelligence and specific abilites |
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Laboratory experiments suggest that animals have____ |
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some cognitive capacites |
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Which of these is one of Howard Gardners's multiple intelligences? |
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naturalistic |
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Which of these is one of Howard Gardners multiple Intelligences |
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naturalistic |
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Creativity is the ablitiy to ____ |
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produce novel or unique ideas or objects |
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A valid test is one that ---- |
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actually measures what it sets out to measure |
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___ percent of the population has IQ scores btw 70-130 |
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95 |
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Profixes, suffixes and words are examples or |
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morephemes |
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a pscholigical test that measures what we intend it to measure is said to be |
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valid |
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A committe has been set up to identify young ppl who are likely to become great Olympics skaters, In addition to physical skills, the committee believes that an understanding of one;s emotions is a plus because it will help the skaters through training and competitions. Using Howard Gardner's types of intelligences, whcih two should be the focus of their search. |
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bodily kinesthetic and intrapersonal |
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The basic sound units of any languages are called |
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phonemes |
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Which of these might be an example of a performace item on the Wechsler tests of intelligence? |
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using blocks to make shaps that one is shown |
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A seemingly arbitrary flash out of the blue, through which the solution to a problem suddently becomes aarent to you but you do not consiously know how you firgured it our is called |
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insights |
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What number reflects the amount of differences in a population attributable to getetic influences? |
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heritablity |
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What is one criticism of the conclusion offerend by Richard Hernstein and Charles Murray in the Bell Curve" |
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they failed to distinguish between correlation and causation |
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the system of rules that governs how we assign meaning to the morphemes we use is called |
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semantics |
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The concept of generalized intelligence is largely based on the theories of |
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Spearman |
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The Binet-Simon scale was originally developed to |
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identify children who might have difficulty in school |
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The ability to produce work that is both novel and appropriate is called |
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creativity |
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What term do psychologists use to describe our tendenct to search for evidence that supports our belief and to ignore evidence that might disprove it? |
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confirmation bias |
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the sounds of t th and sh are |
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phonemes |
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