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Memory
Thinking and Language
Intelligence
Mental Retardation
Potpouri
100
Memories that are general knowledge; for example, knowing that George Washington is the 1st president of the United States is a general (common sense) memory.
What is semantic memory?
100
The mental categories we use to group objects, events, and ideas according to their common features.
What is a concept?
100
This can be found by using the following formula-mental age/chronological age X 100.
What is IQ?
100
IQ scores below 70 are classified as this; depending on the level, individuals may have trouble communicating and caring for themselves.
What is mental retardation?
100
An individual with an IQ score above 130. People with the highest scores have an outstanding talent or show potential of performing at higher than average levels.
What is a gifted individual?
200
The second stage of memory; information is held onto for a limited amount of time; it can hold up to 7 or 8 items at a time; also called your working memory.
What is short term memory?
200
This is the type of thinking or reasoning that involves going from the specific to the general.
What is inductive reasoning?
200
A good psychological or intelligence test must not have this; if it does, then people of a certain cultural background may have an advantage over others.
What is cultural bias?
200
IQ of 50-75, can usually learn up to a 6th grade level.
What is Mild Retardation?
200
memory tool that involves organizing peaces of information into a smaller meaningful number of units.
What is chunking?
300
The final stage of memory; unlimited; information is categorized and stored.
What is long term memory?
300
This is the type of thinking or reasoning that involves going from the general to the specific.
What is deductive reasoning?
300
Mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to a new situation; a person's ability to learn and behave adaptively.
What is intelligence?
300
IQ of 35-55, they can carry out work and carryout self care tasks with moderate supervision
What is moderate retardation?
300
A vivid clear memory of a emotionally significant moment or event.
What is flashbulb memory?
400
Enhances our ability to recall the initial items in a series.
What is primacy effect?
400
Most people with this skill, psychologists have found, are often unpredictable and spontaneous; can result from the opportunity to experiment.
What is creativity?
400
A good test needs this in order for a person to receive a similar score or reading every time the test is taken.
What is reliability?
400
IQ to 20-40, Can master very basic self care skills and some communication skills.
What is severe retardation?
400
a measure of memory in which you must retreive information you learned previously: a fill in the blank like test.
What is recall?
500
The enhanced ability to retrieve information when you are in the same environment or a similar environment to the one in which you encoded the information.
What is context dependent?
500
In psycho-linguistic theory, neural "prewiring" that facilitates the child's learning of language/grammar; an inborn tendency to acquire language; the universal sequence of language development is evidence of this.
What is language acquisition device?
500
Psychological tests need to have this in order to actually measure what it is supposed to measure.
What is validity?
500
IQ under 20, forever dependent on others.
What is profound retardation?
500
Ability to reproduce sharp and detailed images of something that has been seen commonly called photographic memory.
What is Eidetic Imagery?