Intelligence
This is the first IQ test to be used widely in the United States.
What is the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale.
This form of research method for studying lifespan development is the most time-efficient metho.
What is cross-sectional research?
This is the ability to take the perspective of, or empathize with, others and to distinguish right from wrong.
What is morality?
This part of the brain regulates hunger.
What is the hypothalamus?
This component of emotion involves our thoughts, beliefs, values and expectations.
What is the cognitive component?
This model of development says that development results from gradual, incremental changes.
What is the continuity model of development?
This moral reasoning is based on personal standards for right and wrong. Morality is also defined in terms of abstract principles and values that apply to all situations and societies.
What is the postconventional level?
What is extrinsic motivation?
This part of the peripheral nervous system regulates involuntary physiological processes.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
This type of intelligence is gained through experience and tends to increase over one's lifespan.
What is crystallized intelligence.
These cognitive structures are like "blueprints" for organizing ourinteractions with the environment.
What are schemas?
This is an individual's innate disposition or behavioral style and characteristic emotional response.
What is temperament?
This term describes one's desire to excel, especially in competition with others.
What is the need for achievement?
This theory of emotions states that you perceive an event, your body reacts, and then you interpret the bodily changes.
What is the James-Lange theory.
This is the ability of a test to measure what it is designed to measure.
What is validity?
This strong affectionate bond with special others endures over time.
What is attachment?
This effect describes an increase in happiness and well-being as we grow older.
What is the age-related positivity effect?
This theory of motivation begins with a biological need that elicits a drive toward behavior that will satisfy the original need and restore homeostasis.
What is the drive reduction theory?
These two parts of the brain play an important role in emotion.
What are the cerebral cortex and the limbic system (e.g., thalamus, amygdala)?
According to this theorist, there are multiple types of intelligence that include spatial, bodily and interpersonal intelligence among others.
Who is Howard Gardener?
This stage of cognitive development is where a child can perform mental operations and understand the principles of conservation.
What is the concrete operational stage?
This theory of successful aging says that as we age, we deliberately choose to reduce the number of social contacts in favor of familiar people who provide meaningful interactions.
What is the socioemotional selectivity theory of aging?
This theory of motivation says that organisms are motivated to achieve and maintain an optimal level of arousal.
What is the optimal arousal theory of motivation?
The cultural differences in how, when and where people express emotions are governed by these rules.
What are display rules?