Information processing
The number of randomly presented items of information that can be repeated immediately after they are presented.
Memory span
Who coined the term concrete operations?
Piaget
What machine is used to measure brain activity/growth in the research we are studying?
MRI
What was the first way to measure intelligence called?
MA (mental age)
Who founded Rhode Island and became its first governor?
Roger Williams
What is the process of repeating to oneself the material that one is trying to memorize?
Rehearsal
The mental operation in which a child realizes that change in one aspect of a problem is compared with and compensated for by the changes in another aspect
Compensation
Name the two systems that make up cognitive operations in the brain
Limbic and Cerebral
What is meta-analysis
A statistical analysis of results collected from multiple scientific studies
Providence was founded in what year?
1636
What is the word for the ability to think about one’s memory processes?
Metamemory
The mental operation in which a child realizes that one operation can be negated or reversed, by the effects of another
Reversability
What name for the dark tissue containing dendrites and axons?
Gray matter
Name two types of intelligence:
Linguistic, Musical, Logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, personal, and social
Original Name of the State of Rhode Island?
The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
What is the term for one’s higher level cognitive processes that are in charge of controlling and supervising the lower level cognitive processes?
Executive Function
Name two stages of Piaget’s cognitive development
Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete operational, Formal
Name two parts of the ‘reasoning’ part of the brain:
Prefrontal cortex, corpus callosum, cingulate gyrus, cerebral cortex
Define fluid intelligence
The intelligence quotient derived from tests involving tasks that require reasoning but not prior knowledge.
State Motto?
Hope
In the textbook, some activity was found to have a strong positive correlation with math achievement and executive function. What was said activity?
Exercise
Name two features of thinking (examples of concrete operations)
Decentration, Conservation, Logical necessity, Identity, Compensation, Reversibility
Name two parts of the brain that make up the limbic system?
amygdala, hippocampus, basal ganglia, and hypothalamus
What is the Flynn effect?
The steady increase over the past 100 years in IQ test performance, an increase believed to support the environmental hypothesis of intelligence.
What is pictured on the state flag (above a banner bearing the state motto)?
Anchor