Are you smarter than a 5th grader?
A mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.
What is Intelligence?
The processing of information into the memory system- For example, by extracting meaning.
What is encoding?
His theories served as a foundation for a school of psychology; he developed the use of talk therapy and was the first to use the term Psychoanalysis?
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The minimum level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse.
What is a Threshold?
Piaget's stage in which the child develops the ideas of pretend play.
What is Egocentrism?
The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas
What is creativity?
A momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli; if attention is elsewhere, sounds and words can still be recalled within 3 or 4 seconds.
What is Echoic memory?
He is known for his pioneering work in child development; also the first psychologist to make a systematic study of cognitive development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
This Nervous system regulates digestion, Regulates sexual arousal, and slows the heart rate.
What is the Parasympathetic Nervous System?
Substances that may slip through the placenta such as viruses and drugs.
What are Teratogens?
A condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing.
What is savant syndrome?
The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood.
what is mood-congruent memory?
Founder of analytical psychology and inventor of the collective unconscious; he perceived the primary motivation force to be spiritual in origin.
Who is Carl Jung?
Technique that uses magnetic fields and radio waves to produce computer generated images, allows us to see structures within the brain.
What is an MRI?
The reproductive organs and external genetalia.
What is the primary set characteristic?
A test designed to predict a person's future performance.
what is the aptitude test?
The disruptive effect of old information when something new has been learned.
What is retroactive interference?
He created a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self- actualization.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
Directs messages to the sensory receivers area in the cortex and transmits replies to the cerebellum and medulla.
What is the Thalamus?
With abstract reasoning of forward operational thought, people may reach a third moral level.
What is post conventional morality?
The most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance (nonverbal) subjects.
What is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence scale (WAIS)?
A German psychologist who is known or his discovery of the forgetting curve.
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
Known for his theory of psychological development of human beings. Unlike Freud, this psychologist believed humans developed throughout their lifespan, not at the age of 5.
Who is Erik Erikson?
Controls language reception, and comprehension or receptive language, usually in the left temporal lobe.
What is Wernicke's Area?
Erikson's stage of psychosocial development which in middle age people discover a seise in contributing to the world.
What is generativity vs. Stagnation?