DSJ Psychology Unit 5 Part II Review

P

100

What is the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations?

Intelligence

200

What type of intelligence is our ability to reason speedily and abstractly, as when solving novel logic problems?

Fluid

300

J. McVicker Hunt help launch what U.S. government-funded preschool program that served more than 30 million children, mostly from families below poverty?

Head Start

400

For a person to be diagnosed with an intellectual disability, a person must have difficulty adapting to the normal demands of independent living, as expressed in what three areas?

Conceptual

Social

Practical

500

What are the three thoughts in regard to racial differences in intelligence?

• There are genetically disposed racial differences in intelligence.
• There are socially influenced racial differences in intelligence.
• There are racial differences in test scores because the tests are inappropriate or biased.

S

100

What type of test is intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill?

Aptitude Test

200

What is a condition in which a person is otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill?

Savant Syndrome

300

Professor Lewis Terman developed what intelligence test that revealed the intelligence with which a person was born?

Stanford-Benet Test

400

What type of intelligence is our accumulated knowledge as reflected in vocabulary and analogies tests?

Crystallized Intelligence 

500

What are Ian Deary’s four possible explanations for why more intelligent people tend to live healthier and longer lives?

• Intelligence facilitates more education, better jobs, and a healthier environment.
• Intelligence encourages healthy living: less smoking, better diet, more exercise.
• Prenatal events or early childhood illnesses might have influenced both intelligence and health.
• A “well-wired body,” as evidenced by fast reaction speeds, perhaps fosters both intelligence and longevity.

Y

100

Charles Spearman believed we have one what?

G intelligence 

200

What type of twins are the same age, unrelated siblings adopted as infants and raised together?

Virtual

300

K. Anders Ericsson and others report that in order to become an expert it takes about how long of intense practices?

10 Years

400

To be widely accepted, a psychological test meets the what three criteria?

Standardized

Reliable

Valid

500

The four abilities that emotional intelligence consists of are what?

• Perceiving emotions 
• Understanding emotions 
• Managing emotions 
• Using emotions to facilitate adaptive or creative thinking

C

100

In psychology, what is passion and perseverance in the pursuit of long-term goals called?

Grit

200

What type of method does researchers use when they study and restudy the same group at different times in their life span?

Longitudinal method

300

What is the worldwide phenomenon that shows intelligence test performance has improved over time known as?

Flynn Effect

400

The scientific meaning of bias hinges on a test’s what, which is whether it predicts future behavior only for some groups of test-takers?

Validity 

500

Robert Sternberg’s triarchic theory proposed what three intelligences?

Analytical

Creative Intelligence

Practical Intelligence

H

100

William Stern derived what famous term for computing a person’s intelligence level?

IQ

200

What is a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items?

Factor analysis

300

What is the name of Francis Galton's book that focused on inheritance of genius?

Heredity Genius

400

Aptitude tests can be bias if the performance differences are caused by what?

Cultural Experiences

500

L.L. Thurstone identified what seven clusters of primary mental abilities?

Word Fluency, Verbal Comprehension, Spatial Abilities, Perceptual Speed, Numerical Ability, Inductive Reasoning, and Memory.