Intelligence
activation of unconsciously association, predisposing one's perception, memory, or response
Priming
Mental image, best example of a category
Prototype
Narrowing down the solutions to a single best solution
Expanding the number of solutions
Convergent thinking
Divergent thinking
Age you're preforming at
Chronological Age
Mental age
The way something is posed
Framing
an inability to retrieve from one's past or anything before trauma
Retrograde amnesia
A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, and people
Concept
Incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event
Misinformation effecet
An intelligence factor that underlies specific mental abilities, measured by every task on IQ test
Spearman's g factor
the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories
Repression
The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information
Proactive interference
A procedure that guarantees a solution to a particular problem
A simple flaued thinking stragegy that allows efficient problem solving
Algorithm
Heuristics
Attributing the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined
Source amnesia
The extent to which a test has consistent results
Defying uniform testing procedures and meaningful scores by comparison of data
The extent to which a test measures
A symmetrical bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution off many types of data
Reliability
Standardized
Validity
Normal Curve
increase of a cell's firing potential after brief and rapid stimulation
Long-term Potentiation
the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information
Retroactive interference
A sudden realization of a problems solution
An effortless immediate automatic thought or feeling contrasted withexplicit conscious reasoning
Insight
Intuitions
Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they match prototypes
Estimating the likelihood of events based on availability in memory
Representativeness Heuristic
Availability Heuristic
Our accumulatedd knowledge adn verbal skills
Our ability to reason speedily and abstractly
Crystalized intelligence
Fluid intelligence
A self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype
Flynn Effect
Stereotype threat
Mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
Intelligence
A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items
Facor analysis
a tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions
Tendency to approach a problem in a particular way bc it works
Confirmation bias
Mental set
A test designed to assess what a person has learned
A test designed to predict a person's capacity to learn
Widely used american revision of binet's OG intelligence test
Achievement Test
Aptitude Test
Stanford-Binet IQ Test
A cognitive shortcut where a person's subjective confidence int heir own ability is higher than accuracy
clinging to one's initial conceptions after the bias on which they formed has been discredited
Overconfidence
Belief perseverance