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Intelligence Test
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Def: A method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores
E: My RC: IQ |
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Mental Age
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Def: A measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that mostly typically correstponds to a given level of performance. Thus, a child who does as well as the average 8-year-old is said to have a mental age of 8.
E: Mother RC: Stanford-Binet |
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Stanford-Binet
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Def: The widely used American reivision (by Terman) of Binet's original intelligence test.
E: Once RC: Mental Age |
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Intelligence Quotient
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Def: Defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100. On contemporary intelligence tests, the average performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100.
E: Said RC: Intelligence |
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Intelligence
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Def: Mental quality of consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
E: That RC: Factor Analysis |
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Factor Analysis
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Def: a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related terms (factors) on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie one's total score.
E: Being RC: Intelligence |
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General Intelligence (g)
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Def: a general intelligence factor that Spearman and others believed underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test.
E: A RC: Intelligence |
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Savant Syndrome
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Def: A condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing.
E: Good RC: Intelligence |
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Emotional Intelligence
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Def: The ability to perceive, express, understand, and regulate emotions.
E: Little RC: Intelligence |
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Creativity
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Def: The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas.
E: Munchkin RC: Savant Syndrome |
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Aptitude Test
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Def: A test designed to predict a person's future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn.
E: The SAT is not an aptitude test, thought it means to. RC: Intelligence |
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Achievement Test
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Def: A test designed to assess what a person has learned.
E: Mrs. Daniel writes mighty fine achievement tests, though they'd be better if written in Comic Sans. RC: Aptitude Test |
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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
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Def: The WAIS is the most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance subtests.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Intelligence Test |
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Standardization
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Def: Defining meaningful scores vary around the mean score.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Normal Curve |
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Normal Curve
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Def: The symmetrical bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes. Most scores fall near the average, and fewer and fewer scores lie near the extremes.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Standardization |
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Reliability
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Def: The extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternate forms of the test, or on retesting.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Validity |
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Validity
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Def: The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Content Validity |
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Content Validity
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Def: The extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest (such as a driving test that samples driving tasks).
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Validity |
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Criterion
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Def: The behavior that a test is designed to predict; thus the measure used in defining whether the test has predictive validity.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Predictive Validity |
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Predictive Validity
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Def: The success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict; it's assessed by computing the correlation between tests scores and the criterion behavior.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Criterion. |
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Mental Retardation
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Def: A condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence score below 70 and difficulty in adapting to the demands of life; varies from mild to profound.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Down Syndrome |
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Down Syndrome
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Def: A condition of retardation and associated physical disorders caused by an extra chromosome in one's genetic makeup.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Mental Retardation |
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Stereotype Threat
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Def: A self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Personality |
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Personality
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Def: An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Free Association |
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Free Association
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Def: In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Psychoanalysis |
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Psychoanalysis
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Def: Freud's theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes our thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences-and the therapist's interpretations of them-released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Personality |
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Unconscious
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Def: According to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Psychoanalysi |
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Id
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Def: Contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. The id operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Ego |
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Ego
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Def: The largely unconscious, "executive" part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality. The ego operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id's desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Superego |
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Superego
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Def: The part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized idals and provides standards for judgement and for future aspirations.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Id |
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Psychosexual Stages
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Def: The childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which according to Freud, the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on disticnt erogenous zones.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Id |
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Oedipus Complex
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Def: According to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Id |
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Identification
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Def: The process by which, according to Freud, children incorperate their parents' values into their development.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Oedipus Complex |
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Fixation
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Def: According to Freud, a lingergin focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, where conflicts were unresolved.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Id |
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Defense Mechanisms
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Def: In psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Repression |
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Repression
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Def: In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mech. that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and mems from consciousness.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Defense Mechanisms |
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Regression
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Def: Defense Mech in which an indiv. faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, wheresome psychic energy remains fixated.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Defense Mechanism |
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Reaction Formation
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Def: Psychoanalytic defense mechansim by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites. Thus, people may express feelings that are the opposite of their anxiety-arousing unconscious feelings.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Defense Mech. |
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Projection
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Def: Psychoanalytic defense mech by which ppl disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Def. Mech |
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Rationalization
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Def: Def. Mech that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Def. Mech |
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Displacement
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Def: Psychoanalytic def. mech that shifts sexual aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Def. Mech |
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Projective Test
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Def: A personality test, such as Rorshact or TAT, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Rorschach |
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Thematic Apperception Tests (TAT)
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Def: A projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interess through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Rorschach. |
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Rorshach Inkblot Test
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Def: The most widely use projective test, a set of 10 inkblots, designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to ID people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: TAT |
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Collective Unconscious
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Def: Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of mem traces from our species history.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Unconscious. |
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Self-Actualization
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Def: According to Maslow, the ult. psychological need that arises after basic physical and psych. needs are met and self-esteem is achieved; the motiviation to fulfill one's potential.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Self-Concept. |
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Unconditional Positive Regard
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Def: According to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Self-Concept. |
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Self-Concept
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Def: (1) a sense of one's ID and personal worth. (2) all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question "Who am I?"
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: UPR |
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Trait
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Def: A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assess by self report inventories and peer reports.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Personality Inventory |
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Personality Inventory
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Def: A questionnaire (often true-false) on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of eelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Trait |
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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
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Def: The most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Originally used to ID emotional disorders, this test is now used for many other screening purposes.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Personal Inventory |
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Empirically Derived Test
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Def: A test (such as MMPI) developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: MMPI |
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Social-Cognitive Perspective
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Def: Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between persons (and their thinking) and their social context.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Cognition |
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Reciprocal Determinism
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Def: The interacting influences between personality and environmental factors.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Social-Cognitive Perspective. |
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Personal Control
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Def: Our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: External Locus of Control |
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External Locus of Control
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Def: The perception that a chance or outside forces beyond one's personal control determine one's fate.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Internal Locus of Control |
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Internal Locus of Control
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Def: The perception that one controls one's own fate.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: External Locus of Control |
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Learned Helplessness
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Def: The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Internal Locus of Control |
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Positive Psychology
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Def: The scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Learned Helplessness |
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Spotlight Effect
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Def: Overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders (as if we presume a spotlight shines on us).
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Self-Esteem |
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Self-Esteem
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Def: One's feelings of high or low self worth
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Self-Serving Bias |
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Self-Serving Bias
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Def: A readiness to perceive oneself favorably
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Self-Esteem |
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Individualism
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Def: Giving priority to one's own goals over group goals, and defining one's ID in terms of personal attributes rather than group IDs.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Self-Serving Bias |
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Collectivism
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Def: Giving priority to the goals of one's group and defining one's ID accordingly.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Individualism |
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Terror-Management Theory
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Def: Proposes that faith in one's world-view and the pursuit of self-esteem provide protection against a deeply rooted fear of death.
E: Comic Sans is awesome! RC: Self-Esteem. |
