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Psych 1010- Test #3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cognitive psychology is the study of _____. | Mental Processes |
| _____ are mental categories used to group objects, events, and characteristics. | Concepts |
| What is subgoaling? | Setting intermediate goals to reach a larger goal. |
| People often form general rules and concepts based on specific experiences and examples. This type of reasoning is known as _____. | Inductive Reasoning |
| _____ involves reasoning from a general case that we know to be true to a specific instance | Deductive Reasoning |
| The tendency to search for and use information that supports our ideas rather than refutes them is known as | Confirmation Bias |
| is the tendency to report falsely, after the fact, that we accurately predicted an outcome. It is sometimes referred to as the "I knew it all along effect." | Hindsight Bias |
| What is Open-Mindedness? | Being receptive to other ways of looking at things |
| In the U.S. what is Intelligence defined as? | An all-purpose ability to do well on cognitive tasks, to solve problems, and to learn from experience |
| Standardization involves what? | developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test, as well as creating norms, or performance standards, for the test |
| _____ is an individual's level of mental development relative to that of others | Mental age |
| People who are gifted have an IQ of _____. | 130 or higher |
| Intellectual disability (formerly called mental retardation) is a condition of limited mental ability in which an individual has an IQ of ____ and has difficulty adapting to everyday life | Below 70 |
| According to _____ there are three forms of intelligence | Sternberg's triarchic theory |
| According to _____ there are nine types of intelligences | Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences |
| The case study of a young girl named Genie who was isolated and severely abused. Because her parents never communicated with her in words, Genie lacked exposure to language during her early childhood years. This case study suggests that language developme | Language is influenced by the environment |
| Most individuals develop a clear understanding of their language's structure, as well as a large vocabulary, during | Childhood |
| Developmental psychologists study physical, cognitive, and _____ changes throughout the human life cycle. | Socioemotional |
| _____ refers to the pattern of continuity and change in human capabilities that occurs throughout the course of life | Development |
| _____ refers to a person's ability to recover from or adapt to difficult times | Resilience |
| Developmental psychologists use the term _____ to refer to a person's genes or biological inheritance | Nature |
| _____ refers to the individual's environmental and social experiences. | Nurture |
| A(n) _____ is any agent that causes a birth defect | Teratogen |
| Most adults reach their peak physical development during their _____. | Mid-20s |
| Which theory of aging has focused on the role of chronic stress in reducing immune system functioning? | Hormonal stress theory |
| According to Piaget, egocentrism refers to young children's | Self-centered arrogance |
| The term _____ refers to an individual's behavioral style and characteristic way of responding. | Temperament |
| A(n) _____ is a mental framework for understanding what it means to be male or female in one's culture | Gender Schema |
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