Cognition
Intelligence
Personality
Disorders
Misc.
100
The process of classifying information into meaningful categories.
What is concept formation?
100
The ability of a test to measure what it purports to test.
What is validity?
100
A discrepancy between one’s self-image and ideal self.
What is incongruence?
100
Job-related condition of mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion.
What is burnout?
100
An expectation that prompts people to act in ways that make the expectation come true.
What is self-fulfilling prophesy?
200
Subjective, personal, or emotional meaning of a word or concept.
What is connotative meaning?
200
The overall capacity to think rationally, act purposefully, and deal effectively with the environment.
What is intelligence?
200
A person whose attention is directed outward.
What is an extrovert.
200
A learned inability to overcome obstacles or to avoid punishment.
What is learned helplessness?
200
Compulsion by members of decision-making groups to maintain agreement, even at the cost of critical thinking.
What is group think?
300
Thinking or mentally processing information?
What is cognition?
300
Bell-shaped curve characterized by a large number of scores in a middle area.
What is a normal curve?
300
Proposes there are five universal dimension of personality.
What is the five-factor model?
300
Habitual and often unconscious psychological process used to reduce anxiety.
What is a defense mechanism?
300
Personal, private feelings of discomfort, unhappiness, or emotional stress.
What is subjective discomfort?
400
The ability to change position of an image in mental space.
What is mental rotation?
400
A theory that states there are several specialized types if intellectual ability.
What are multiple intelligences?
400
A system of concepts, assumptions, ideas, and principles used to understand and explain personality.
What is personality theory?
400
The scientific study of mental, emotional, and behavioral discomfort.
What is psychopathology?
400
A series of bodily reactions to prolonged stress.
What is the general adaptation syndrome?
500
A strategy or technique that aids problem solving.
What is a heuristic
500
A type of intelligence that deals with pictorial abilities.
What is visual and spatial thinking?
500
A person’s unique and relatively stable behavior patterns.
What is personality?
500
A withdrawal from reality marked by hallucinations and delusions, disturbed thought and emotion, and personality disorganization.
What is psychosis?
500
A personality theory that attempts to learn what traits make up personality and how they relate to actual behavior.
What is trait theory?
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