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Charles Spearman suggested that we have one ______ underlying success across a variety of intellectual abilities. |
General Intelligence |
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The existence of savant syndrome seems to support |
Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. |
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Sternberg's three types of intelligence are |
academic; practical; creative |
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Emotionally intelligent people tend to |
succeed in their careers |
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The IQ of a 6-year-old with a measured mental age of 9 would be. |
150 |
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The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) is best able to tell us. |
how the test taker compares to other adults in vocabulary and arithmetic reasoning. |
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The Stanford-Binet, the WAIS yield consistent results, for example on retesting. In other words these tests have high____ |
reliability |
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Use the concepts of crystallized and fluid intelligence to explain why writers tend to produce their most creative work later in live, and scientists may hit their peak much earlier. |
Crystallized intelligence is intelligence that is accumulated over a lifetime and increases with age. Writers rely more on this. Fluid intelligence, or speedy and abstract reasoning is relied upon by scientists, and this decreases with age. |
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More intelligent children and adults tend to live healthier and longer lives. Which of the following is NOT a possible reason for this phenomenon? |
Intelligent people have slow reaction times. |
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The strongest support for heredity's influence on intelligence is the finding that. |
identical twins, but not others siblings have nearly identical test scores. |
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The environmental influence that has the clearest, most profound impact on intellectual development is |
an environment of extreme deprivation |
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__ __ can lead to poor performance on tests by undermining the test takers belief that they can do well on the test. |
Stereotype Threat |
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What is homeostasis |
is the property of a system in which variables are regulated so that internal conditions remain stable and relatively constant. |
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What sugar when low, makes us feel tired |
glucose |
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What are sexual paraphilias |
when sexual arousal is associated with non human objects. |
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The ___-___ theory of emotion maintains that a physiological response happens BEFORE we know what we are feeling. |
James-Lange |
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What does a polygraph measure, and why are its results questionable. |
it measure psychical responses to emotions, but some emotions have similar physical responses |
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When people are induced to assume fearful expressions, they often report a feeling of a little fear. This result is known as the ___ ___ effect. |
Facial Feedback |
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Happy people are more likely to help others t/f |
TRUE |
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_____psychology is a scientific field of study on how humans survive an flourish. |
positive |
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After moving to a new apartment you find the street noise annoying, but later it doesn't bother you. |
adaption-level phenomenon |
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What is the relative deprivation principal |
we will always be envious because there is always someone with more than us |
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Selye's general adaptation syndrome (GAS) consists of an alarm reaction followed by __, then ___ |
Resistance, alarm |
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When faced with stress women are more likely than men to experience the ___ and ___ response |
tend then befriend |
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What are type A and B personalities |
A = angry B = relaxed |
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____tests ask a respondent to respond to an ambiguous stimulus e.g telling a story about it |
projective |
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neo-freudians place more emphasis on what/ |
social interaction |
