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Psychology

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intelligence   ability to learn from experience, solve problems, use knowledge, and adapt to new situations  
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factor analysis   a procedure that identifies new clusters of related items on a test  
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savant syndrome   a condition where a person has an exceptional specific skill (or limited in mental ability)  
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analytical intelligence   assessed by IQ tests - presents well-defined problems having a single right answer  
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creative intelligence   the ability to adapt to new situations/generate novel ideas  
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practical intelligence   required for everyday tasks that are poorly defined (ex: decision making)  
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emotional intelligence   ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions  
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reification   viewing an abstract immaterial concept as if it were a concrete thing  
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fluid intelligence   the ability to solve new problems/identify patterns/use logic  
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crystallized intelligence   the ability to use learned knowledge/experience  
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standardization   the test must be pre-tested to a representative sample  
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mental age:   what a person of a particular age should know  
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reliability   the extent to which a test yields consistent results overtime  
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validity   the extent to which a test measures what it is supposed to  
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content validity   does the test sample a behavior of interest?  
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predictive validity   does the test predict future behavior  
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aptitude   measure ability or potential  
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achievement   tests that measure what you have learned  
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stereotype threat   tendency to perform worse when conscious of being in a group stereotyped of performing poorly  
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Stanford-Binet   the widely used revision of Binet's intelligence test  
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intelligence quotient   the ratio of mental age to chronological age  
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normal curve   a symmetrical curve that describes the distribution of many types of data  
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intrinsic   curiosity, pride, achievement, interest  
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extrinsic   grades, punishment, praise, money  
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motive   a need or desire that energizes behavior/ directs it to your goal  
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emotion   feeling that underlies behavior  
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instincts   complex behaviors that have fixed patterns  
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need   a requirement that has to be fulfilled  
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drive   keeps us motivated and working to fulfill the need  
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homeostasis   explains why we stop fulfilling biological drives  
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drive reduction   the physiological aim of drive reduction is the maintenance of a steady internal state  
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optimum arousal   humans seek optimum levels of arousal  
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arousal theory   people do thing to seek out an optimal level of arousal for a given moment  
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cohort   a group of people sharing a common characteristic  
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intellectual disability   a condition of limited mental ability  
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heritability   proportion of variation among individuals in a group that we can attribute to genes  
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