This is a type of mental representation or concept of categories that are created through rigid and local rules or features.
What are formal concepts?
The G in G-factor stands for this?
What is General?
This is a type of androgen (hormone) produced by the testes.
What is testosterone?
This is the stage of development characterized by exploring the world and learning through sensory input.
What is sensorimotor stage?
This type of motivation occurs because of external reinforcers such as money.
What is extrinsic motivation?
This is the most ideal or most representative example of a natural concept that helps us categorize or identify specific members of a category.
What is a prototype?
The degree to which as assessment measures what it intends to measure is known as this.
What is validity?
This is a female hormone secreted by the ovaries in women and the andrenal glands in both men and women.
What is estrogen?
When a person is only able to image the world from his or her own perspective.
What is egocentrism?
This type of motivation refers to the drive or urge to continue a behavior because of internal reinforcers.
A system for using symbols to think and communicate is called this.
What is language?
The ability of an assessment to provide consistent, reproducible results is known as this.
What is reliability?
This is an individual's complete collection of genes.
What is genotype?
What is object permanence?
This refers to the tendency for bodies to maintain constant states through internal controls.
What is homeostasis?
This is the basic building blocks of spoken language.
What is phoneme?
This is a score from an intelligence assessment originally based on mental age divided by chronological age multiplied by 100.
What is IQ or Intelligence Quotient?
The observable expression or characteristics of one's genetic inheritance.
What is phenotype?
This stage of development is characterized by thinking more logi8cally, but in reference to concrete objects and circumstances.
What is concrete operational stage?
This is the strive to fulfill one's potential according to Maslow's Hierarchy of needs.
What is self-actualization?
This refers to social rules regarding language.
What is pragmatics?
Life Smarts is another name for this type of intelligence in which people have the capacity to percieve, understand, regulate and use emotions to adapt to social situations.
What is emotional intelligence?
These are environmental agents that can damage the growing zygote, embryo or fetus.
What are teratogens?
This concept refers to the unchanging properties of volume, mass or amount in relation to appearance.
What is conservation?
This theory suggests that homeostasis motivates us to meet biological needs.
What is the drive-reduction theory?