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What is the IQ score of a gifted person?
an IQ score of 130 or above
What is the field of psychology that studies the patterns of growth and changes that occur throughout life development.
developmental psychology
What is a branch of psychology that studies how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals are influenced by the presence of others.
social psychology
What is the thought that each generation has a significantly higher IQ than the generation before.
Flynn effect
What is a positive/negative evaluation of a person, idea, objects or situation?
attitude
what is it called when you think of a golden retriever first when asked about a dog.
prototype
Who is the person that thought out childhood experiences directly influence our development?
freud
What is a negative action toward an individual as a result of ones membership in a particular group?
discrimination
What is trying multiple different ways to figure out a task?
trial and error
what is voluntary behavior that intends to help others?
prosocial behavior
What is the way words are organized into sentences?
syntax
What is the ability to focus on the muscles in our fingers, toes, and eyes, and enable coordination of small actions.
fine motor skills
what is a negative attitude and feeling toward an individual based solely on their membership of a particular group
prejudice
What is a basic sound unit?
phoneme
What are the two components of a relationship?
similarity and proximity
what is a students continuous use of quizlet for every test because it worked the past is an example of?
mental set
what is neural connections are reduced during childhood and adolescence to allow the brain to function more efficiently
prunning effect
What is a specific belief or assumption about someone based solely on their membership in a group, regardless of their individual characteristics.
stereotype
what is the field of psychology that is dedicated to examining how people think?
cognitive psychology
what is someone asking for a small favor then a large one after they say yes.
foot in the door
What is when you use a cup to hold pencils instead of water, this is an example of someone who does not have?
functional fixedness
what is the theory that focuses learning right from wrong?
moral development theory
What is affective is to prejudice as cognitive is to ______, and behavioral is to __________.
stereotype; discriminations
who is the person that proposed we are born with a biological predisposition to acquire language
Noah Chomsky
what are the two attributions that can explain behavior?
situational cause and dispositional cause