Intelligence
This approach to intelligence suggests that intelligence can be measured using standardised tests.
What is the psychometric approach to intelligence?
This type of behaviour helps us adjust to our environment by promoting well-being and success.
What is an adaptive behaviour?
This holistic approach explains psychological disorders by considering biological, psychological, and social factors.
What is the biopsychosocial approach?
This term refers to the entire group that a psychological research study is interested in gathering data about.
What is a population?
This program is used for Psychology homework.
What is atmoi?
This psychometric measure is calculated using the formula Mental Age ÷ Chronological Age × 100
What is Intelligence Quotient (IQ)?
This type of psychological disorder is characterised by excessive fear or worry that interferes with daily activities
What are anxiety disorders?
This negative attitude or belief about a person or group can reduce help-seeking behaviour and lead psychological disorders to go untreated.
What is stigma?
In an experiment, this variable is deliberately manipulated by the researcher to observe its effect on another variable.
What is the independent variable?
This student joined our class most recently.
Who is Milla?
This theory of intelligence suggests there are multiple different types of intelligence that are unrelated.
What is Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences?
This anxiety disorder involves an intense irrational fear that impacts daily functioning.
What is a phobia?
This phenomenon occurs when a person's symptoms improve because they believe they are receiving an effective treatment, even though the treatment itself has no active therapeutic ingredient.
What is the placebo effect?
This term describes how well a sample reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn.
What is representativeness?
These students joined our class at the start of Unit 2.
Who are Ruby and Maddison?
This aspect of an intelligence test refers to the extent to which an instrument measures what it is supposed to measure.
What is validity?
This diagnostic handbook, produced by the American Psychiatric Association, is used to identify and classify symptoms of mental disorders.
What is the DSM-5?
These factors increase an individual's vulnerability to developing a mental disorder and often include inherited traits or family history.
What are predisposing risk factors?
A researcher obtains a p-value of 0.02 when testing a hypothesis. This term is used to describe the significance of the result.
What is statistically significant?
This teacher currently teaches both Year 12 Psychology classes.
Who is Ms Stutt?
According to Sternberg's theory, successful intelligence is made up of these three interacting forms of intelligence.
What are analytical, creative, and practical intelligence?
This approach to normality determines whether a behaviour is normal based on how frequently it occurs in a population.
What is the statistical approach to normality?
This type of treatment for psychological disorders involves working with a trained professional to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours
What are psychotherapies?
This type of variable may affect the dependent variable but is not the independent variable that the researcher intends to study.
What is an extraneous variable?
These concepts are the focus of our final topic for this unit (Topic 4).
What are emotion and motivation?