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intelligence:
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being able to apply ideas to complez problems to form solutions
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fluid intelligence
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ability to learn and problem solve
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crystallized intelligence
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the sum of what you know
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Aptitude tests:
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are designed to predict a persons future performance. and there capacity to learn
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Acheivement tests:
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assesses what a person has learned
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(WAIS)
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Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale Subtests
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68% of populations IQ scores fall between
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85 and 115
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Intellectual disabilty occurs if IQ is under:
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55 (1% of population)
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Things that influence IQ testing:
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prior testing, medication, educational history, and significant medical events
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Howard Gardners theory of multiple intelligences
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We have not one intelligence, but many distinct intelligences or skills that are valued by ones culture
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interpersonal
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relate well to other people
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intrapersonal
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aware of yourself and own feelings
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pygmalion effect
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predictablity of intelligence and teachers favoritism
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perceptual constancy:
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perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal image change (shape, size, color, brightness)
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perception is guided by:
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experience and expectations
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encoding:
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getting information into the system
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storage:
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retaining information
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retrevial
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getting the information back out
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primary effect:
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tendancy to remember words at the beginning of a list
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recency effect:
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tendency to remember words at the end of a list
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interference:
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other items in sotrage get confused with what youre trying to recall
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proactive interference:
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previously stored information interferes with new information youre trying to remember
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retroactive interference:
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newly stored information interferes with retrieval of old information
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Loftus experiment results:
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speech estimates depended on how the question was phrased, retrevial of memory is guided by cues,
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4 things that affect our reconstruction of past events:
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current mood, prior experiences, new information, expectancies
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retrograde amnesia
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lack of memory for events that occurred just before a brain trama
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anterograde amnesia
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lack of memory for events that occured after brain trauma ( 50 first dates)
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