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Psychology42913
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Phonemes | Basic sounds that make up a language |
| Morphemes | The smallest unit of language that carries meaning |
| Intelligence | Problem solving skills and the ability to adapt to and learn from life's everyday experiences |
| Binet | Alfred Binet constructed the first intelligence test after being asked to create a measure to determine which children would benefit from instruction in Francis' schools |
| Levels of Retardation | Mild, moderate, severe, and profound |
| Howard Gardner | 8 frames of mind: Verbal, mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinsthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist |
| Normal distribution | A symmetrical, bell-shaped, curve with a majority of scores falling in the middle of the possible range and few scores appearing at the extremes of the range |
| Maslow's hierarchy | States that individuals' main needs are satisfied in the following sequence: physiological, safety, love and belongingness, esteem, and self-actualization |
| Motivation | The force that moves people to behave, think, and fell the way they do |
| Intrinsic motivation | Motivation that is based on internal factors such as organismic needs as well as curiosity, challenge, and effort |
| Extrinsic motivation | Motivation that involves external incentives such as rewards and punishments |
| Personality | A pattern of enduring, distinctive thoughts, emotions and behaviors that characterize the way an individual adapts to the word |
| Traits | An enduring, personality characteristic that tends to lead to certain behaviors |