general Psyc exam 5
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- Three stages of infant language development:
- Babbling, one-word, two words
- Wharf linguistic determinism hypothesis:
- Different languages impose different conceptions of reality
- Validity
- extent to which a test measures what it is suppose to
- Reliability
- extent to which a test gets consistent results
- Intellect is determined more by eniviornment or by heredity?
- Heredity of intellect rises as the enviornment decreases
- are intelligence tests biased?
- yes because of cultural experiences
- cognition
- mental activities assoc. with thinking, knowing, remembering
- Down syndrome
- retardation & physical disorders
- criterion
- the behavior which a test is designed 2 assess
- confirmation bias
- tendancy to search for info. that confirms preconceptions
- concept
- mental groupingof similar objects
- fixation
- inability to see a problem from a new perspective
- insight
- sudden realization of an answer
- heuristic
- simple thinking strategy allowing 2 make judgements
- functional fixedness
- think of things as only 1 function
- belief perseverance
- clinging 2 initial belief even when proved otherwise
- IQ
- Mental age to chronological age times 100
- WAIS
- intelligence test
- standardization
- defining meaningful scores by comparison
- normal curve
- symmetrical bell curve
- prototype
- mental image or best example of a category
- avaliability heuristic
- estimating liklihood of events based on memory
- framing
- the way an issue is posed
- emotional intelligence
- ability to percieve, express and understand emotions
- telegraphic speach
- child speaks like a telegraph
- What is creativity and where does it come from?
- Creativity is the ability 2 produce valuable ideas. Imagination, creative enviornment, intrinsic motivation.