Intelligence Insight
The term for a person's overall general mental ability, often referred to as "g."
General intelligence
The parenting style characterized by high expectations and high responsiveness.
Authoritative parenting
The branch of psychology that focuses on promoting strengths and well-being rather than just treating illness.
Positive psychology
The part of the eye where photoreceptors like rods and cones are located.
Retina
The disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
The phenomenon where average IQ scores have risen over generations.
Flynn effect
Piaget's stage where children gain object permanence.
Sensorimotor stage
This practice, often encouraged in positive psychology, involves regularly recognizing and appreciating good things.
Gratitude
This theory explains color vision by saying cones detect three specific wavelengths: red, green, and blue.
Trichromatic theory
The brain structure heavily involved in processing emotions like fear and anger.
Amygdala
When a test measures what it claims to measure, it is said to have this.
Validity
The phenomenon where an infant shows fear when separated from their caregiver.
Separation anxiety
The ability to adapt well in the face of adversity, trauma, or stress.
Resilience
The body’s system responsible for balance and spatial orientation, located in the inner ear.
Vestibular system
The type of memory involved in riding a bike without consciously thinking about it.
Procedural memory
This man developed the first standardized intelligence test in France.
Alfred Binet
A research method that studies people of different ages at the same time.
Cross-sectional study
This term describes positive psychological change experienced as a result of struggling with highly challenging life circumstances.
Post-traumatic growth
The name for deafness caused by damage to the hair cells or auditory nerve.
Sensorineural deafness
The reinforcement schedule that rewards behavior after an unpredictable number of responses.
Variable ratio schedule
Intelligence tests that measure future potential rather than learned knowledge are called these.
Aptitude tests
The ability to reason speedily and abstractly, which tends to decline with age.
Fluid intelligence
The term for the emotional and cognitive evaluation of one’s overall life satisfaction.
Subjective well-being
The process of converting sensory signals into neural impulses.
Transduction
The tendency to recall information better when you're in the same emotional state as when you learned it.
Mood-congruent memory