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The extent to which a test yields consistent results.
What is reliability?
This type of intelligence reflects our accumulated knowledge (such as vocabulary) and increases into middle age.
What is crystallized intelligence.
The type of distribution seen in results of IQ tests.
What is a normal distribution?
This part of your mind is the "executive" part of personality that balances the id and supergo and the part of the mind and operates on the reality principle.
What is the ego?
The fact that we overestimate how often others notice and judge us.
What is the spotlight effect?
The stage of speech development in which an infant spontaneously utters various sounds that are unrelated to the household language.
What is the babbling stage.
The area of the brain responsible for language expression.
What is Broca's area?
This is the the average IQ score.
What is 100?
The complex caused by unresolved issues during the genitial psychosocial stage of development causing a young man to want to kill his father and marry his mother.
What is Oedipal complex?
An attitude of total acceptance that values a person even knowing their failings.
What is unconditional positive regard?
A methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees you will solve a partiuclar problem.
What is an algorithm?
This psychologist believes that there are 8 different types of intelligence including musical, emotional, interpersonal and intrapersonal.
Who is Howard Gardner?
This type of study studies and restudies the same people over a long period of time.
What is a longitudinal study?
This defence mechanism shifts aggressive urges towards a more acceptable (or less threatening) object or person.
What is displacement.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating.
What is cognition?
This mental heuristic causes us to misjudge the likelihood of an event based on how easily we remember it.
What is the availability heuristic?
IQ has a standard distribution of this size.
What is 15?
The father of psychoanalysis and psychology as a whole.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Along with neuroticism, openness to new experiences, extraversion, and conscientiousness is one of the big five personality traits.
What is agreeableness?
Our sense of competence and effectiveness.
What is self-efficacy?
The age at which are critical period for language closes.
What is age 7?
This person created what is now the most widely used intelligence test (the WAIS).
Who is David Wechsler?
According to Alfred Adler, this complex is the result of childhood feelings of insecurity that triggers striving for power and superiority.
What is an inferiority complex?
The belief that behaviour, personality, and environment all influence and are influenced by each other.
What is reciprocal determinism?