Sensation & Perception
Activation of sensory receptors in the sense organs.
What is sensation?
An inferred phenomenon that explains different degrees of success in people's behavior.
What is intelligence?
IQ tests are NOT good predictors of this.
What is school/college performance?
What are explicit and implicit?
The 3 types of memory.
What are sensory, short-term, and long-term?
Process by which sensations are organized and interpreted into something meaningful.
What is perception?
The branch of science that measures psychological characteristics, such as intelligence and personality.
What is psychometrics?
Thinking of as many uses as possible for a brick is an example of _______________ thinking.
What is divergent?
This type of long term memory involves performing tasks, procedures, or skills.
What is implicit memory?
Tendency to recall things at the beginning or end of a list.
What is serial position effect?
The second step in sensation/perception of a stimulus--receptors convert a chemical signal into an electrical signal.
What is transduction?
This type of intelligence includes prior learning, facts, and increases with age.
What is crystallized intelligence?
The 4 aspects of divergent thinking.
What are fluency, originality, flexibility, and elaboration?
This happens when exposure to a stimulus unconsciously influences how you respond to the next stimulus.
What is priming?
Strategy that involves grouping things into categories to help remember them.
What is chunking?
Sensory stimulation below a person's conscious perception.
What is subliminal sensation?
The arbitrary, average intelligence score on most of the standardized IQ tests.
What is 100?
This culture-fair intelligence test makes minimal use of language and doesn't ask for specific facts.
What is Raven's Progressive Matrices?
These are the 3 memory PROCESSES.
What are encoding, storage, and retrieval?
Aids, such as acronyms, that help us recall larger pieces of information (e.g. systems or steps).
What are mnemonic devices?
This is when receptors stop sending signals to the brain after repeated exposure to a stimulus.
What is desensitization?
The percentage of people who have an IQ higher than 100.
What is 50%?
What are practical, analytical, and creative intelligences?
This memory process involves locating information and bringing it to consciousness.
What is retrieval?
A strategy that involves making meaningful connections between what you're learning and what you already know.
What is elaborative rehearsal?