Thinking
Group of objects, events, or activities that share common characteristics or attributes.
What are concepts?
The test used today that is used to measure intelligence is…
What is the IQ test?
One factor that affects perception.
What is motivation; beliefs, values, prejudices, and expectations; life/cultural experiences; sensory adaptation; attention?
The types of photoreceptors in the eye.
What are cones and rods?
The subconscious association between stimuli to events.
What is classical conditioning?
Shapes and mathematical formulas are this kind of concepts.
What are artificial concepts?
The belief that intelligence is shaped by developmental environment.
What is nurture?
The gestalt principle that suggests we organize our perceptions into complete objects rather than as a series of parts.
What is closure?
The height of a sound wave referred to as…
What is the amplitude?
The stimulus and response that occurs naturally are called…
What is the unconditioned stimulus and unconditioned response?
A mental collection of related concepts that organizes information and allows the brain to work more efficiently.
What is schema?
Facts, knowledge, and abilities acquired through experience are known as…
What is crystalized intelligence?
The kind of processing that occurs when interpretation of sensations is influenced by available knowledge, experiences, and thoughts.
What is top-down processing?
The part of the eye that is behind the iris and finishes the focusing process begun by the cornea.
What is the lens?
Positive reinforcement is…
What is when something is added to increase the likelihood of a behavior?
When someone believes in horoscopes and only focuses on the relevant or true information, they are displaying…
What is confirmation bias?
Maximum IQ score needed to be considered as having an intellectual disability.
What is 70?
The minimum amount of stimulus energy that must be present for the stimulus to be detected 50% of the time.
What is the absolute threshold?
The three types of cones that the trichromatic theory proposes.
What are red (long), blue (short), and green (medium) cones?
When an organism does not get reinforced every time they display the desired behavior.
What is partial reinforcement?
This word is only one morpheme and phoneme.
What is “I”?
Seeing many different possibilities or new ideas in a situation.
What is divergent thinking?
The kind of receptor cells that are located in a mucous membrane at the top of the nose.
What are olfactory receptor cells?
Theory that proposes there are 4 primary colors with cones arranged in pairs and if one is stimulated, the other is inhibited.
What is opponent-process theory?
Decrease in the conditioned response when the UCS is no longer presented with the CS.
What is extinction?