Psychology Facts
This word means language can communicate meaningfully about ideas, objects, and activities that are not physically present.
What is displacement?
The first, best example of a category that comes to mind.
What is a prototype?
Inventing or imagining the solution to a problem is a sign of this type of intelligence.
What is creative?
Giving a test to a large population to gather data to establish a pattern of usual or average score ranges.
What is norming?
The tendency to approach a situation the same way each time.
What is a mental set?
Gardner's theory of intelligence states there are this many types of intelligence. (the number of intelligences listed in your textbook as confirmed in his theory)
What is 8?
A test designed to measure a person’s level of knowledge, skill, or accomplishment in a particular area.
What is an achievement test?
What are heuristics?
The escalator video was an example of this....
What is functional fixedness?
A way of displaying data, our example was a perfect one, ranging from low to high IQ.
What is the bell curve?
This man believed that a single factor underlies many different kinds of mental abilities
Who is Spearman?
The two main intelligence tests discussed in this chapter.
What are the Stanford-Binet and the Wechler Series?
The three parts of Sternberg's theory of intelligence.
What are analytic, creative, and practical?
If someone said Rosa Parks when asked for an example of peaceful resistance, this would be an example of a ____________.
What is an exemplar?
A concept that is learned via rules.
What is a formal concept?
A type of intelligence that uses reasoning and abstract thought rather than prior experiences to solve problems.
What is Fluid Intelligence?
Getting stuck in viewing a problem one way with only one solution.
This word means the ability to create an infinite number of new and different phrases and sentences.
What is generative?
Trying various solutions with no order or set of rules.
What is trial and error?
You use this method by following a set of rules.
What is an algorithm?
A test designed to assess a person’s capacity to benefit from education or training.
What is an aptitude test?
This indicates that the test will get the same or very similar results time after time.
What is reliability?
Being able to evaluate, judge, and compare/contrast.
What is analytic intelligence?
Learning, remembering, and recalling information is associate with this type of intelligence.
What is crystallized intelligence?
Test procedures that are consistent through scoring, administering, and interpretation.
What is standardized?