Names. Also. Never. Stop.
No matter how many new theories we go through, this person was STILL wrong about almost everything he said.
Who was Sigmund Frued?
This states that Mental Disorders are similar to physical ones; with potential Causes, Treatments and Cures.
What is the Medical Model?
This common way of separating people has been connected to some differences in intelligence, but not to an average difference in overall ability.
What is Gender?
This understanding of how good or valuable we are is able to predict a fair amount of our life satisfaction. Yet it may be a bit TOO high in some people. Looking at you "I hard carried" player...
What is Self-Esteem?
If we were to only use strict logic when making decisions, so we definitely took the best odds every time, we'd be following this.
What is Rational Decision Theory?
One of this person's greatest successes came from trying to define what would make other people succeed! He even called it Successful Intelligence.
Who was Sternberg?
To find out what disorder may be affecting someone, you would compare their symptoms to the list found here. Check the publication date though, we're already past Version 5!
What is the DSM? (Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
On top of every other hurdle being in a low bracket of this comes with, it also leads people to scoring lower on many standardized intelligence tests, like the IQ test.
What is Socioeconomic Status? (SES)
Someone experiencing this is engaging with something that matches their own abilities, will likely perform whatever task they are focused on very well, and lose track of time while they do it. It seems healthy, so just go with it!
What is Flow?
What is the Sunk Cost Fallacy?
He gave us the idea of "multiple intelligences" from Emotional all the way to Naturalistic.
Who was Gardner?
No matter what it is, or how strange it is, someone's thoughts or behavior do not count as a disorder unless they do this.
What is causing harm?
This refers to someone's ability to work with or understand plants and animals.
What is Naturalistic Intelligence?
If someone is allowed to react to a particular thing or situation based on their own unique understanding of it, then they will draw upon one of these when choosing how to act.
What is a Personal Construct?
Being aware of when you may be using one of these is a great way to make better decisions. While the shortcut it offers may be nice, it might also lead to an illogical choice.
What are Heuristics?
This portion of the brain was named after a scientist that was important for it's discovery, and is very important for speaking. In fact, damage here may render someone almost unable to talk!
What is Brocca's Area?
This states that it's not just about the experiences someone has. A particular person developing a disorder or not can also come down to specific things about them.
What is the Stress Diathesis Model?
If we are representing a group with many different examples, so we can represent how varied that group is, then we are relying on this.
What is Exemplar Theory?
You're engaging with one of these anytime someone's request boils down to "tell me about yourself", like a personality survey. It's not perfect, but it's cheap, quick, simple, and if we're careful, it still makes good data
What is a Self-Report
Since I can think of a large number of prompts like this one, they must be very common! Or at least, that's what this common decision-making error would lead me to believe.
What is the Availability Bias?
This one SOUNDS like a name, and is even the name of a superhero. Really though, it's a famous Projective Technique involving random ink blots.
What is the Rorschach Test?
This is a very common criteria for someone to be diagnosed with a disorder. After all, who WOULDN'T be a bit jumpy for a while after watching a great horror film?
What is Duration? (length, ect; concept, not term).
This term described the trend we saw for several decades of intelligence steadily increasing. Recently though, we've started to see it slip back down.
What is the Flynn Effect?
If we are specifically looking for something, this may cause us to take extra notice if it actually does happen. Which can make getting someone to acknowledge another opinion very frustrating.
What is Perceptual Confirmation?
If someone were to only listen to the first person that talked to them about a topic, and ignore information that came from other people afterwards, then this is what would be mooring down their mental progress.
What is Anchoring?