Intelligence
An intelligence involved with the ability to process emotional information and use it in reasoning and other cognitive activities.
What is emotional intelligence?
A personal internal motivation to do something, change something, etc.
*Hint: You do it for the sake of YOU not to please someone, avoid punishment, or for rewards
What is intrinsic motivation?
The process by which people select organize and interpret sensations.
What is perception?
The accuracy of a measure in an experiment that measures if the results really do represent what they are supposed to measure.
What is validity?
What approach is focused on how the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences; how our genes and environment influence our differences?
What is biological?
A syndrome where people with various developmental disorders, that have an amazing talent/ability.
*Hint: An island surrounded by a sea of disability.
What is savant syndrome?
A decreased response to stimulus after repeated exposure to that stimulus
EX: The computer fan is always running, the brain zones it out because it's exposed to it a lot.
NOT SENSORY ADAPTATION
What is habituation?
What effect explains a person's tendency to remember the first and last items in a list?
What is serial-position effect?
The specific statement of procedures or variables in a study that you need in order to be able to replicate the experiment.
What are operational definitions?
What approach explains how the natural selection of traits has promoted the survival of genes?
What is evolutionary?
A statistical method used to simplify a complex set of variables by identifying underlying factors that explain the relationships between them.
*Hint: it helps reduce a large number of variables into a smaller number of key factors.
What is factor analysis?
The reappearance of a conditioned response after a period of time has passed.
What is spontaneous recovery?
What phenonom occurs when lights flash at a certain speed they tend to present illusions of motion
*Hint: Neon signs use this principle to create motion perception.
What is phi phenomenon?
The variable you manipulate in the experiment.
What is the independent variable?
What approach is based on how humans encode, process, store and retrieve information?
What is cognitive?
A phenomenon that occurs when people perform better on a task because they are aware of a negative stereotype about an out-group.
What is stereotype lift?
The principle that behavior filled by a positive outcome likely to be repeated.
EX: A child gets praise for something then they are more likely to do it again.
What is Thorndike’s Law of effect?
The inability to form new memories after a specific event, like a brain injury or illness. Long-term memories from before the event remain largely intact.
*Hint: Henry M. (HM) lost most of hippocampus in surgery and suffered from this.
What is anterograde amnesia?
The inverse relationship where when one variable increases the other decreases or when one variable decreases the other increases.
EX: The more time you take to study for your test the number of errors on the test decrease.
What is negative correlation?
What approach is based around how we achieve personal growth and self-fulfillment?
What is humanistic?
A situation where high expectations lead to improved performance and low expectations lead to worsened performance.
EX: Students perform better/worse based on the was their teacher expectations of them.
What is pygmalion effect?
A state of mind where an individual is actively engaged in behaviors that benefit others (helping, sharing, comforting, cooperating). They are acting with the intention to positively impact the well-being of others around them
*Hint: its the opposite of antisocial behavior
What is prosocial models?
The tendency to think only the familiar/most common/primary function of an object (its main purpose).
What is functional fixedness?
The method for combining result from multiple studies on the same subject/topic.
What is meta analysis?
What approach is based on how behavior and thinking varies across situations and cultures?
What is Social-Cultural?