CH 6 Information
Refers to the mental processes that enable you to encode, retain, & retrieve information over time.
What is memory?
A break or disruption in consciousness during which awareness, memory, & personal identity become separated or divided.
What is dissociative experience?
The mental activities involved in acquiring, retaining, & using knowledge.
What is cognition?
The administration of a test to a large, representative sample of people under uniform conditions for the purpose of establishging norms.
What is standardization?
An individual's unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feelings, and behaving.
What is personality?
A model describing memory as consisting of 3 distinct stages: sensory memory, short-term memory, & long-term memory.
What is the stage model of memory?
Loss of memory caused by the inability to store new memories.
What is anterograde amnesia?
A system for combining arbitrary symbols to produce an infinite number of meaningful statements.
What is language?
The ability of a test to measure what it is intended to measure.
What is validity?
The set of perceptions and beliefs that you hold about yourself.
What is self-concept?
This type of memory lasts about 20-30 seconds.
What is short-term memory?
A dissociative disorder involving the partial or total inability to recall important personal information.
What is dissociative amnesia?
The global capacity to think rationally, act purposefully, & deal effectively with the environment.
What is intelligence?
This theorist proposes that there are 8 types of intelligences, made up of different mental abilities.
Who is Howard Gardner?
The beliefs that people have about their ability to meet the demands of a specific situation.
What is self-efficacy?
Information or knowledge that affects behavior or task performance but cannot be consciously recollected.
What is implicit memory?
A type of dissociative amnesia involving sudden and unexpected travel away from home, extensive amnesia, & identity confusion.
What is a dissociative fugue?
This individual translated Alfred Binet's test to English and called it the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test.
Who is Lewis Terman?
Who is Robert Sternberg?
The view of personality that generally emphasizes the inherent goodness of people, human potential, self-actualization, the self-concept, and healthy personality development.
What is Humanistic Psychology? or What is the Humanistic Perspective on Personality?
The recall of very specific images or details surrounding a vivid, rare, or significant personal event.
What is a flashbulb memory?
Sandy displays a disorder involving extensive memory disruptions for personal information along with the presence of two or more distinct identities/alters within a single person.
What is dissociative identity disorder?
This individual came up with a person's mental age which is a measurement of intelligence in which an individual's mental level is expressed in terms of the average abilities of a given age group.
Who is Alfred Binet?
This intelligence scale provides three IQ scores: Verbal IQ score, Performance IQ score, and a Full Scale IQ score.
What is the Wechsler Intelligence Scale?
A theory of personality that focuses on identifying, describing, and measuring individual differences in behavioral predispositions.
What is Trait Theory of Personality? or What is the Trait Perspective of Personality?