Theories
Memory
Learning
Self-Awareness
Grab Bag
100

This theory posited that intelligence is made up of 8 different types of intelligence.

What is Gardner's Multiple Intelligences?
100

The three steps of the memory process.

What are encoding, storage/consolidation, and retrieval?

100

This is the process by which children are taught the customs and norms of their surroundings.

What is enculturation?

100

This Arabian philosopher created the Floating Man thought experiment.

Who is Ibn Sina/Avicenna?

100

Which common household pet consistently fails self-awareness tests?

What are cats?

200

This theory held that intelligence was made up of g-factor and s-factor intelligence.

What is Two Factor/Spearman's theory?

200

This type of memory lasts for about 20 seconds and can only story roughly 7 items.

What is short-term memory?

200

This is the phenomenon in which people learn by observing others.

What is modeling?

200

This test has been performed on animals to check for self-directed behaviour.

What is the Mirror Test?

200

This emotional intelligence focuses more on an individual's skills in emotional intelligence.

What is the Ability/Mayer & Salovey Model?

300

This theory contended that intelligence was comprised of three different types of intelligences.

What is the Triarchic/Sternberg's Theory?

300

This type of long term memory deals with memories of ourselves and our experiences.

What is episodic memory?

300

This is a learning process in which a response is associated with a neutral stimulus.

What is classical conditioning?

300

This French philosopher reiterated Ibn Sina's conclusion that the perception of thought is evidence of the self.

Who is Rene Descartes?

300

This emotional intelligence model has more of a focus on emotions in their social context.

What is the Mixed/Goleman's Model?

400

This theory is a precursor to Gardner's theory, featuring multiple areas of intelligence.

What is Thurstone's theory?

400

This type of amnesia can occur after a brain injury. The most common symptom is anterograde amnesia.

What is post-traumatic amnesia?

400

This is a learning process in which a target behaviour is either reinforced or punished.

What is operant conditioning?

400

These parts of the brain contribute to self-awareness.

What are the medial prefrontal cortex, insular cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, and the posterior cingulate cortex?

400

This woman was the subject of Henry Goddard's study on the heredity of "feeble-mindedness," The Kallikak Family.

Who is Emma Wolverton?

500

List at least 3 commonly held indicators of intelligence.

What are memory, self-awareness, pattern recognition, learning, creativity, abstraction, emotions, and problem solving?

500
List the 5 parts of the brain that contribute toward memory.

What are the cerebellum, hippocampus, amygdala, thalamus, and prefrontal cortex?

500

This is a phenomenon in which an animal (humans included) becomes convinced they are unable to control or change a stressful situation.

What is learned helplessness?

500

This phrase is the traditional Latin translation of the phrase: "I think, therefore I am."

What is "cogito ergo sum?"

500

This is the phenomenon where we perceive patterns that aren't there.

What is pareidolia?