Mental Problems
Memory
Tests
Type of Thinking
Misc.
100
IQ score below 70
What is mental retardation?
100
Second stage of memory, limited storage holding up to 7 or 8 things at a time
What is short-term memory?
100
The age a person is
What is chronological age?
100
Memory tool that involves organizing pieces of information into a smaller number of meaningful units
What is chunking?
100
Type of memory that includes specific event that you experienced
What is episodic memory?
200
IQ score above 130
What is gifted?
200
Final stage of memory, unlimited
What is long-term memory?
200
Ability to learn and behave adaptively
What is intelligence?
200
Sometimes called photographic memory
What is eidetic imagery?
200
Results from the oppurtunity to experiment
What is creativity?
300
Type of retardation with an IQ score less then 20
What is profound retardation?
300
Vivid clear memory of emotionally significant event
What is flashbulb memory?
300
IQ formula
What is mental age/chronological age X 100?
300
The mental catagoreies we use to group objects according to their common features
What is schemas?
300
Intellectual age
What is mental age?
400
Failure to remember events that occured before the physical trauma
What is retrograde amnesia?
400
Memories that are general knowledge/ common sense
What is somatic memory?
400
When a psychological test measures what it is supposed to measure
What is validity?
400
Thinking that involves going from specific to general
What is inductive reasoning?
400
Howard Gardner's theory that there several types of intelligences within us
What is multiple intelligences?
500
Interference where old learning interferes with the ability to retrieve material learned recently?
What is productive?
500
The first stage of memory, information is sensed
What is sensory memory?
500
A similar score everytime the test is taken
What is reliability?
500
Type of reasoning going from general to specific
What is deductive reasoning?
500
To recall initial items in a series
What is primacy effect?
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