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PSYC 206

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Schemes   show
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Assimilation   show
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show Piagetian concept of adjusting schemes to fit new information and experiences  
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Organization   show
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show A mechanism that Piaget proposed to explain how children shift from one stage of thought to the next  
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show The first of Piaget's stages, which lasts from birth to about 2 years of age, during which an infant constructs an understanding of the world by coordinating sensory experiences (seeing/hearing) with physical, motoric actions  
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show Mental  
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Object Permanence   show
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Eventually children learn not to put everything in their mouths. This is an example of ________.   show
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A-not-B Error   show
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Core Knowledge Approach   show
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According to Piaget, what is a child's motivation to change?   show
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show The second stage of Piaget's development which lasts from 2-7 years of age; children begin to represent the world with words, drawings, and images  
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Operations   show
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What is the order of Piaget's stages?   show
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Symbolic Function Substage   show
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Egocentrism   show
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What is the main difference between a reflex and a habit?   show
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show A facet of preoperational thought- the belief that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities and are capable of action on their own  
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Centration   show
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Intuitive Thought Substage   show
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Conservation   show
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Which of Piaget's stages lasts from birth to about 2 years of age?   show
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show The third Piagetian stage, which lasts from approximately 7-11 year; children can perform concrete operations, and logical reasoning replaces intuitive reasoning as long as the reasoning can be applied to specific or concrete examples  
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show The concrete operation that involves ordering stimuli along a quantitative dimension (such as length)  
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show Object Permanence  
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Transitivity   show
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Formal Operational Stage   show
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show Cannot yet perform operations-reversible mental actions- that they are able to do physically  
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Hypothetical-Deductive Reasoning   show
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Adolescent Egocentrisim   show
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show That aspect of adolescent egocentrism that involves feeling that one is the center of attention and sensing that one is on stage  
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Personal Fable   show
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show Developmentalists who have elaborates on Piaget's theory, emphasizing attention to children's strategies; information-processing speed; the task involved; and division of the problem into more precise smaller steps  
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show Distinguish among different or real perspectives  
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show Vygotsky's term for tasks that are too difficult for children to master alone but can be mastered with guidance and assistance from adults or more-skilled children  
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show In cognitive development, a term Vygotsky used to describe the changing level of support over the course of a teaching session, with the more-skilled person adjusting guidance to fit the child's current performance level  
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show An emphasis on the social contexts of learning and construction of knowledge through social interaction; Vygotsky's theory reflects this approach  
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show Thinking that is reflective, relativistic, and contextual; provisional ; realistic; and influenced by emotions  
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show Conservation  
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show 7 through 11  
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Halene is sure that all of her classmates are staring at her new haircut; this is an example of ________.   show
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Like Piaget, Vygotsky believed that children _______.   show
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show The zone of proximal development  
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show An important tool of though in early childhood years  
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show Leave the student alone to figure things out by himself  
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According to William Perry, compared to adolescent thinking, adult thinking is _______.   show
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)   show
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Information-Processing Approach   show
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Encoding   show
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show The ability to process information with little or no effort  
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Strategy Construction   show
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Metacognition   show
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show How people encode, manipulate, monitor, and create strategies to manage information  
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Attention   show
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show Focusing on a specific aspect of experience that is relevant while ignoring others that are irrelevant  
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Divided Attention   show
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Sustained Attention   show
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Executive Attention   show
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show Automaticity  
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show Focus by individuals on the same object or event; requires an ability to track another's behavior, one individual to direct another's attention and reciprocal interaction  
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show Salient vs Relevant Dimensions (play attention to flashy things) Planfulness (children's planning improves with advances in executive attention)  
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Which of the following statements accurately describes processing speed?   show
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Memory   show
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Schema Theory   show
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Schemas   show
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Implicit Memory   show
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Explicit Memory   show
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Long-Term Memory   show
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show Retention of information for up to 15 - 30 seconds, without rehearsal of the information; using rehearsal help individuals can information longer in short-term memory  
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show Getting information into memory  
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show Retaining the information over time  
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What is memory retrieval?   show
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Stacy is vigilant in watching her baby for any change in her breathing. This is an example of ________ attention.   show
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Working Memory   show
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Elaboration   show
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show States that memory is best understood by considering two types of memory representations: 1) verbatim memory trace 2) gist  
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What are two strategies that adults can use to guide children's retention of memory?   show
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show Verbal dialog between the two parties  
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show Retention of information about the where and when of life's happening  
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Semantic Memory   show
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show The ability to remember where something was learned  
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show Remembering to do something in the future  
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Thinking   show
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show Cognitive groupings of similar objects, events, people, or ideas  
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Executive Function   show
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show Encoding, storage, and retrieval  
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show Thinking reflectively and productively, and evaluating the evidence  
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show States that decision making is influenced by two systems- "verbatim" analytical (literal and precise) and gist-based intuition (simple bottom-line meaning)- which operate in parallel; in this model, gist-based intuition benefits adolescent decision making  
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Which of the following statements characterizes the schema theory of memory?   show
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Expertise   show
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show Implicit memory  
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show Knowledge about memory  
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Theory of Mind   show
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What three things do children between the ages of 1 1/2-3 years of age begin to understand?   show
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show The place where information is manipulated and assembled when people make decisions or solve problems  
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show 68  
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While reading a book for literature class, Kelly tried to relate to the character's struggles and note how they are similar and different from her own life so that she can remember the events in the book better. Kelly is using the ________ strategy.   show
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show Adults remember more events from the second and third decades of their life than any other; which may be the most positive memories  
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Anna is trying to remember a quote she learned years ago. She can remember the professor who quoted it but not the actual quote. She succeeded in ________, but failed in ________.   show
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show Concepts  
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show involves goal-setting and cognitive flexibility includes executive attention involves cognitive inhibition and delay gratification  
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show Adolescents tend to make better decisions when they are emotionally aroused.  
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show Dwayne listens to easy-listening music for 2 hours everyday  
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show An individual's level of mental development relative to that of others  
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Intelligence Quotient (IQ)   show
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show Intelligence can be measured easily, similar to taking someone's height  
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Normal Distribution   show
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show Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence, creative intelligence, and practical intelligence  
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show The ability to solve problems and to adapt and learn from experiences  
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What are the content areas of the current Stanford-Binet intelligence test?   show
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show The ability to perceive and express emotions accurately and adaptively, to understand emotion and emotional knowledge to use feelings to facilitate thought and to manage emotions in oneself and others  
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What does the Gardner test focus on?   show
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show Analytical, practical, and creative intelligence  
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show Emotional intelligence  
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Who developed the WISC, WAIS, and WWPSI intelligence tests?   show
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Stereotype Threat   show
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show Intelligence tests that are designed to avoid cultural bias  
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show Widely used scales, developed by Nancy Bayley, for assessing infant development; current version (Bayley-III) has five scales: cognitive, language, and motor to the infant with socioemotional and adaptive to the caregiver  
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show Considered as just one of several aspects of evaluation in conjunction with other information about the individual  
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Crystallized Intelligence   show
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show The ability to reason abstractly, which begins to decline in middle adulthood  
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show Bodily-kinesthetic  
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show The "hardware" of the mind, reflecting the neurophysiological architecture of the brain as developed through evolution, cognitive mechanics involves the speed and accuracy of the processes involving sensory input, visual and motor memory, etc.  
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Cognitive Pragmatics   show
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Brain imaging studies show that which part of the brain is MOST linked with higher intelligence?   show
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Wisdom   show
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show A condition of limited mental ability in which an individual has a low IQ, usually below 70 on a traditional test of intelligence, and has difficulty adapting to the demands of everyday life  
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Giftedness   show
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show Culturally biased; reflect the cultures of some test-takers more than others.  
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show The ability to think in novel and unusual ways and to come up with unique solutions to problems  
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Divergent Thinking   show
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Convergent Thinking   show
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show Technique in which individuals are encouraged to come up with creative ideas in a group, play off each other's ideas, and say practically whatever comes to mind that is relevant to a particular issue  
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According to John Horn, the ability to reason abstractly is ________ intelligence.   show
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What are the five steps in the creative process?   show
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show Longitudinal  
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show Wisdom  
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A genetic disorder or lower level of mental functioning caused by brain damage is called ________ intellectual disability.   show
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Highly gifted individuals _________.   show
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What type of thinking do standardized tests in schools measure?   show
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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic that is typical of creative thinkers?   show
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