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Unit 5 Cognitive Psychology

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show the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations  
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show according to Spearman and others, underlies all mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task as an intelligence test  
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factor analysis   show
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savant syndrome   show
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show in psychology a passion and perseverance in the pursuit of long-term goals  
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emotional intelligence   show
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show a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores  
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achievement test   show
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show a test designed to predict a person's future performance, aptitude is the capacity to learn  
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show a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet, the level of performance typically associated with kids of a certain chronological age.  
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show the widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test  
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show defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100. IQ=ma/ca*100  
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Wechsler adult intelligence scale   show
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show defining uniform testing procedures and meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group  
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show the bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes. Most scores fall between the average, and fewer an fewer fall near the extremes  
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show the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as associated by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternative forms of the test, or on retesting  
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validity   show
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content validity   show
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show the success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict, it is assessed by comparing the correlation between test scores and the criterion behavior also called criterion- related validity  
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show a group of people sharing a common characteristic, such as from a given time period  
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show our accumulated knowledge an verbal skills, tends to increase with age  
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fluid intelligence   show
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cross sectional study   show
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longitudinal study   show
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intellectual disability   show
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down syndrome   show
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show the proportion of variation among individuals in a group that we can attribute to genes. the heritability of a trait may vary, depending on the range of populations and environments studied  
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show a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype  
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show believed in one general intelligence (g factor) a common skill set underlies all intelligent behavior  
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L.L. Thurstone   show
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Howard Gardner   show
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Robert Sternberg   show
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Daniel Goleman   show
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