Thinking
What are the "building blocks" of thought?
Images and languages
The concept that language is the sole influence of human thought
linguistic determinism
What is the IQ Quotient Formula?
MA over CA x 100
What are the three criteria needed for test constructions?
**All three needed to score**
1) Standardization
2) Reliability
3) Validity
If a test is able to predict how well someone will do in college courses, it would score high on this criteria of test construction.
**be specific**
Predictive Validity
The phrase "I knew this along" comes from this
hindsight bias
Johnny's first language is English. His second language is French. Which language will he respond more emotionally in?
English
An exponential and consistent increase in average intelligence performance due to better education, nutrition, and a need to cope with evolving technology is referred to as this
What is the Flynn Effect?
These are the two versions of the most popular intelligence test today
What is the WAIS and the WISC
A toddler who has a chocolate lab at home would also incorporate Dalmatians into her schema of dogs. What process is playing a role in this situation?
Assimilation
Nick is at dinner and tells a joke that no one laughs at. Now Nick is afraid to tell a joke thinking no one is going to laugh. What decision making is going on.
Availability Heuristic.
For Language, this phase occurs in childhood when the connections in the brain are most plastic to experience
Critical Period
**TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED**
Brads girlfriend breaks up with him and in a fit of rage, he smashes in her car window. What type of intelligence is Brad missing and what specific part of it is he missing?
Emotional intelligence and managing emotions.
When Patricia comes in to take her AP Psych test over cognition, she finds questions asking her to label the periodic table of elements. The test is missing this criteria of test creation.
**be as specific as possible**
Content Validity
"90% of people survive the surgery" vs. "1 in 10 people do not leave the operating room alive" is an example of this concept
Framing
Dan refused to go to Mcdonalds with his friends because it matches his prototype that the food would give him a heart attack.
Representative heuristic
How many morphemes does the word "helplessness" have?
Three morphemes
An early opponent of Spearman, this guy came up with 7 different abilities, even though they still seemed to cluster/correlate with each other
Who is L.L. Thurstone
Mr. Rypma took the Rorschach inkblot test twice, once it described him as normal, and the his results said he was pathological. This shows the tests is lacking this criteria for test construction.
What is reliability?
If an individual were to suffer brain damage and the individual's speaking was affected, what area of the brain was damaged/affected?
Broca's Area
You are in an argument and do a google search to prove your point rather than just searching the overall question. This is an example of what type of cognitive process?
confirmation bias
**DAILY DOUBLE CHALLENGE QUESTION**
Your schema for this Gene includes the following words: Coding, Language, Only in vertebrae, Fox.
FOXP2
A person encounters a new situation and must react quickly, despite extensive knowledge of similar subjects, they are unable to react quickly and efficiently to the new situation. What type of intelligence does this person seem to be lacking
Fluid Intelligence
Explain why we no longer compute IQ using the traditional fomula
As someone gets older, if they perform as well as someone younger, they would be said to have a low IQ Ex. 20/40 x 100 = 50
A person encounters a new situation and must react quickly, despite extensive knowledge of similar subjects, they are unable to react quickly and efficiently to the new situation. What type of intelligence does this person seem to be lacking
Fluid Intelligence