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Psych 101 exam 3
Question | Answer |
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Involves reasoning, planning, solving problems, comprehending, learning | intelligence |
common intelligence tests | WAIS, WISC, and Stanford-Binet |
most intelligence test data can be best described by this | 3-level hierarchy: g= general intelligence, m= memory, reasoning, verbal skill, s (specific skills)= recalling movie titles, remembering birthdays, solving logic problems, making legal arguments, giving speeches, solving crossword puzzles |
group differences are... | are a product of SES ex: income, education, diet, birth weight, healthcare, testing situations (bias) |
statistic describing the proportion of the difference btwn people's scores that can be explained by genetic makeup | heredibility coefficient |
the fear that one's behavior will confirm an existing stereotype of a group with which one identifies, which may interfere with performance | stereotype threat effects |
can be measured by twin studies | heredibility |
an individual's characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling | personality |
a series of answers to a questionnaire that asks people to indicate the extent to which sets of states or adjectives accurately describing their own behavior or mental state | personality Inventories |
example of Personality inventory test | MMPI- Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory...... they are used to assess personality and psychological problems |
a standard series of ambiguous stimuli designed to elicit unique responses that reveal inner aspects of an individual's personality | Projective techniques |
example of Projective technique | Rorschach Inkblot test and thematic appreception test |
a neutral stimulus that is used to be an interpreted picture | Rorschach Inkblot test |
presents ambiguous slides and pictures...and the client gives a story about the pictures | Thematic Appreception Test (TAT) |
what are the five dimensions of personality | openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neurocentricism |
part of the brain that stimulates arousal | reticular formation |
responds to anticipation of reward | BAS (Behavioral Activation system) |
inhibits behavior in reguards to punisment | BIS (Behavioral Inhibition System) |
people with high BAS | tend to be highly extroverted |
people with high BIS | tend to be neurotic |
what are the views of personality? | trait approach, psychodynamic approach, locus of control |
personality can be understood by a combination of traits | trait approach |
personality can be formed by needs, strivings, and desires largely operating outside of awareness....motives that can produce emotional disorders | psychodynamic approach (unconscious motives ) |
id, ego, superego | structure of mind |
the component of personality developed through contact with the external world....by resisting impulses, operating according to the reality principle, and enables us to deal with life's practical demands | ego |
the part of the mind containing drives present at birth....sources of needs, wants, desires, and impulses | id |
the mental system that reflects the internalization of cultural rules....regulates and controls our behaviors, thoughts, and fantasies | superego |
person's tendency to perceive the control of rewards as internal to the self or external in the environment | locus of control |
the self | self concept, verification, esteem, and serving bias |
a person's explicit knowledge of his or her own behavior, traits, and other personal characteristics | self concept |
the tendency to seek evidence to confirm one's self concept | self verification |
the extent to which an individual likes, values, and accepts the self | self esteem |
people tend to take credit for their successes and downplay their failures | self serving bias |
empathy is... | recognizing and responding ....see, feel, and react |
There are ___ different forms of ASD | 5; Autistic disorder, Asperger's, PDD-NOS, Rhetts Disorder, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder |
Most Severe | Autistic Disorder |
High Functioning with complex vocab | Asperger's (Sheldon) |
Middle of the road; delays in some areas but no delays or strengths in other areas | PDD-NOS |
very rare | Rhett's Disorder and Childhood Disintegrative Disorder |
3 areas of delay for Autistic people | social, behavior, communication |
Difficulties for Autistic people | handwriting (fine motor skills), no physical contact, line up instead of playing with toys, no emotion, rocking motion, odd sleep habits, seizures, stimulating motions, they want one solid rule, obsession and strengths in one particular subject |
Cause of autism and treatment | there is not single autism gene or known cause of autism and no treatment....disciplinary treatment is individualized. |
Feeling comes from | mirror neurons |
Personality can be shaped by | prior events and anticipated events |
Postive self- esteem to the extreem Grandioseview of self combined wit tendency to seek admiration from and exploit others | Narcisism |
3 levels of consciousness | 1. conscious- awareness @ any moment 2. Preconscious- aspects just beyond awareness 3. unconcious- aspects not currently being experiences (oedipus complex) |
Helps us deal with life's practical demands | ego |
controls our behaviors, thoughts, and fantasies | superego |
source of needs, wants, desires, and impulses | id |
a discrepancy between IQ & academic achievement | learning disability |