Old White Dudes
He came up with the concept of "G" or "general intelligence.
Charles Spearman
This type of memory does not require you to consciously focus on the learning process.
What is automatic processing?
This is the average IQ.
What is 100?
This type of intelligence refers to specific facts, and tends to increase as a person gets older.
What is crystallized intelligence?
This is a mental image or best example of a category that embodies its most typical features.
What is a prototype?
He came up with the idea of fluid / crystallized intelligence.
Raymond Cattell
This type of memory has essentially infinite storage.
What is longterm memory?
This refers to a test's consistency, meaning it produces stable, similar results if taken multiple times under the same conditions.
What is reliability?
He developed an IQ test specifically for children.
Who is David Wechsler?
This is a mental framework or blueprint that organizes and interprets information.
What is a schema?
He theorized that people can have multiple intelligences.
Howard Gardener
This part of the brain is especially important in processing emotional memories.
The process of establishing performance standards by administering a test to a large, representative sample to understand typical performance.
What is norming?
This type of intelligence might help someone understand why their friend is acting upset.
What is emotional intelligence?
The tendency to interpret new evidence as support of one's existing beliefs or theories.
What is confirmation bias?
She was old and white but not a man, and she researched eyewitness memory
Elizabeth Loftus
These are strategies such as a pattern of letters, ideas, or associations that assists in remembering something.
What is a mnemonic?
This percentage of a normal curve falls within one standard deviation of the average.
What is 68 percent?
What are analytic, creative, and practical intelligence?
This is a cognitive bias that makes people see objects only in their typical or traditional uses.
What is functional fixedness?
He theorized that 7 is the "magic number" of things a person can keep in short term / working memory.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
This refers to a persistent strengthening of synapses that's considered a primary cellular mechanism for memory.
What is long term potentiation?
The widespread, long-term rise in average IQ test scores across generations.
What is the Flynn Effect?
He created what today is known as the Stanford Binet IQ test.
Who is Lewis Terman?
A mental shortcut, or "rule of thumb," that helps people make quick decisions or solve problems efficiently.
What is a heuristic?