ADHD
Per class, approximately ____% of children do not have ADHD.
95%
A very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly, and learn from experience. It is not merely book-learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings, ‘catching on’, ‘making sense’ of things, or ‘figuring out’ what to do. (Gottfredson, 1997)
Intelligence
_____ argued that intelligence is determined by one’s “general intelligence” rather than by separate mental faculties
Charles Spearman
This machine measured readiness potentials in the Libet study
EEG
In ____, we consider options one by one, and then we select an option as soon as we find one that is just good enough to meet our minimum level of acceptability
satisficing
Per class, approximately ____% of adults do not have ADHD.
97%
______ created the Chitling Test to demonstrate the potential for racial bias in IQ testing.
Adrian Dove
_______ focused on studying persons who were high in intelligence
Lewis Terman
This machine measured wrist flexing in the Libet study.
EMG
This idea arose as a result of observations that people do not always make good decisions and may even make bad ones.
Bounded rationality
Meta-analyses peg the heritability of ADHD at ___% (two answers will work)
70% or 76%
______ developed the first true IQ test.
Alfred Binet
____ account for up to 80% of the variability in adult human intelligence.
Genetic factors
In the Libet study, the timing of the conscious decision to act preceded wrist movement by this amount of time.
200 ms
The prevalence of an event or characteristic within its population of events or characteristics.
Base rate
Incidence of ADHD
This unthinkable policy continued in North Carolina until 1976.
Forced sterilization / negative eugenics
This subtest of the WAIS measures one's ability to hold and manipulate info in short-term memory
Working Memory
In the Libet study, the start of Readiness Potentials preceded wrist movement by this amount of time.
550 ms
mistaken belief that the probability of a given random event, such as winning or losing at a game of chance, is influenced by previous random events (e.g., previous wins and losses in the game of chance
gambler's fallacy
These, which focus only on ADHD symptom presence, result in many "false positive" diagnoses and are large reason incidence of ADHD diagnoses continue to climb.
Symptoms rating scales
This separated British school children at age 11 based on their intelligence.
1944 Butler Education Act
This refers to when a test predicts outcomes better for some groups better than it predicts outcomes for others.
Differential validity
This refers to the question of how an objective brain gives rise to subjective experience.
The hard problem of consciousness
Because of ____ we tend to see particular attributes, categories, or events as going together even though, in reality, they do not.
illusory correlations