Abilities
The ability to draw appropriate conclusions from facts is known as what?
Deductive Reasoning
What is the psychological disorder characterized by coveractivity, inattention, and/or impulsivity?
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
What is the most common learning disability?
Reading Disability. (it can be traced to inadequate understanding and use of language sounds)
What is the theory that people find work fulfilling when the important features of a job or profession are a good fit with the worker’s personality?
Holland’s personality - type theory
Using one's emerging identity in adolescents as a source of ideas about careers is known as what?
Crystallization
A person's ability to engage effectively in tasks of daily living is known as what?
Adaptive Behaviour
What is the name of the stimulant medication that ADHD is usually treated with?
Ritalin
Which stage is the Piagetian cognitive stage of development where children first use mental operation to solve problems and reasons?
Concrete Operational Stage
The final stage of Piagetian cognitive development, in which youth apply mental operations to abstract concepts via hypothetical thinking and deductive reasoning is called what?
Formal Operational Stage
Limiting career possibilities by learning more about specific lines of work and starting to obtain the training required for a specific job is known as what?
Specification
The ability to consider a broad range of information and outcomes when making a decision is known as what?
Reflective Judgement
To act on a whim, displaying a behaviour and/or physical movement without thinking?
what is Impulsive
Which category of intelligence was proposed by Guilford to describe IQ test related intelligence, such as puzzles, vocabulary words, and arithmetic?
Convergent
Gilligan proposed that female’s moral reasoning is based on caring and responsibility for others, not justice. This is known as what?
Gilligan’s Ethic of Caring
Entering the workforce and learning first-hand about jobs is known as what?
Implementation
The ability to make ideas known to others through language is known as what?
Expressive Language Ability
What is the mental illness that most children/youth with ADHD will also have?
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
A cognitive scientist wants to test the classification of children into the correct stage of cognitive development. She recruits judges to independently score, after training, the same 30 toddlers. What is she checking for with this procedure, which tests the degree to which the judges’ scores agree?
Inter-rater reliability
What is Kohlberg's theory of the reasoning about Moral Issues?
Kohlberg proposed that moral reasoning includes pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional levels.
Is the implementation phase the first, second, or third phase?
Third Phase
A person's ability to understand other people's ideas when they are expressed through language is known as what?
Receptive Language Ability
Which type of twins has a high risk of both children having ADHD? (Identical or Fraternal)
Identical Twins
A psychiatrist has children complete tasks to assess development. Each child is shown a three-dimensional model of a mountain scene, while positioned on one side with the psychiatrist observing from the opposite side of the scene. The child is asked to look at four pictures from different viewpoints including both the child’s and the psychiatrist’s viewpoints. Nathan, one of the children from the group, looks at the 4 pictures and selects the viewpoint that matches his own. Which of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development has Nathan currently attained?
Pre-operational
What are the three phrases of vocations during developmental adolescence and young adulthood?
Crystallization, specification, and implementation.
At what age do adolescents use their emerging identities as a source of ideas about careers? (Crystallization)
Age 13 or 14