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| Mental ability to learn from experience |
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| General intelligence that is part of successful performance on many types of tasks |
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| Mentally delayed overall but with one superior ability (piano) |
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| Garner's Multiple Intelligences |
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| Intelligence isn't just IQ! there's different ways to be smart! people criticize him and say there is just IQ |
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| Used by psychologists to evaluate person's mental potential and compare with others |
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developed test of intellectual abilities(mental age concept)
Its used to identify kids with learning problems |
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| What are two types of ages? explain. |
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| Chronological age (CA) and Mental age (MA) |
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| Stanford-Binet Test (original) |
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| Boy thats 12 yrs. functions like 9 yrs. whats his IQ? |
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| WAIS - Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale |
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| composed of separate verbal and performance subtests |
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| Measure of ones capacity to learn particular skills (auto mechanic) |
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| Assess learned knowledge or skills |
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| Person's test performance is compared to a representative pretested group |
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| Normal Curve - Bell shaped Pattern |
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| Distribution of IQ scores in general population |
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| test provides consistent results pretested group |
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| Test measures/predicts what it's supposed to |
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| Born with an extra chromosome |
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| Heritability of Intelligence |
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| Percentage of variation in intelligence within a group due to genetic factors |
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| Head Start Program research |
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| indicates reduction in likelihood that participants will repeat grades or need special ed |
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| biased in a way - cuz intelligence is influenced by cultural experiences |
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| Developmental Psychologists |
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| study Physical, Cognitive and Social changes throughout the human life cycle |
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| Substance that can cross the placental barrier and harm an unborn child (Mother takes drugs...) |
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| Biological growth processes relatively uninfluenced by experience |
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| Mental activities involving thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating |
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| psychologist - helped developed our understanding of COGNITIVE development |
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| Baby grasping and sucking easily available objects |
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| Monkey Research, they put a wire substitute mom with food - developed Mom-infant emotional bond through body contact (he wanted his cuddly mommy even if she didn't have yummy food) |
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| Provide children with safe haven in times of stress contributes to secure attachment |
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| certain events have an unusually strong effect on development |
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| kids sens that their parents are trustworthy and dependable |
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| (not to mean and not to chilled) Likely to have kids who have high self esteem and are reliant |
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| Erikson - Developmental issue of adolescents is a "Sense of identity" |
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| Branch of psychology which sudies how people think about, influence and relate to one another |
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| is an attitude (in your head you Hate a certain culture) |
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| is a behavior (you kill the people of that culture) |
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| trend for an observer in an emergency situation to withhold aid when emergency is observed by a number of other people (they dont act cuz they think for sure other people will take care of it) |
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| Discomfort we feel when two thoughts are inconsistent (your school teaches you one thing your parents teach you another) |
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| Milgram's study on Authority/Obedience |
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| "teachers" were more obedient than many would predict (they gave these people power and told them to be mean - and the people listened!) |
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