Psych-Mental Abilities
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Psychometric | Testing, individual differences |
| Info Processing | Flow of info during mental tasks |
| Convergent processes | Several pieces of info and put them into one single solution |
| Divergent processes | One single to many solutions Ex: creative people and toy stuffed animal |
| Spearman's g-factor | -General -Applies to all mental tasks |
| Spearman's s-factor | -Specific -Verbal & Math SAT |
| Cattell Theory- (Nature) fluid | -Biological, mental efficiency, fast, accurate -Decrease in old age |
| Cattell Theory- (Nurture) Crystallizd | -ability to learn -vocabulary and life skills -old people are good at communication, cooking, and money-management, word games -they are good at learning overall |
| Gardener's Multiple Intelligence-linguistic | verbal |
| Gardener's Multiple Intelligence-logical | mathematical |
| Gardener's Multiple Intelligence-spatial | maps |
| Gardener's Multiple Intelligence-musical | write and read music |
| Gardener's Multiple Intelligence-social perception | knowing if you could trust someone |
| Gardener's Multiple Intelligence-social interaction | get along with people |
| Wechsler | Statistical definition of intelligence |
| Reliability | -consistency -test-retest -alternate form -varies 10 points |
| Validity | ability of test to measure what its supposed to |
| concurrent validity | high IQ means high grades |
| Predictive validity | -when test scores are correlated with a criterion that cannot be measured until some time in the future -IQ and future grades |
| nurture-monozygotic(ID) raised together | similar IQS |
| nurture-monozygotic(ID) raised apart | different IQs/ 6pt difference |
| nature-dizygotic(fraternal) raised together | 12 pt difference |
| Jensen & Hernstein | say IQ is 80% heredity |
| head start program | educational for kids who are from disadvantaged environments |
| Zajonc-confluence theory | family size affects intelligence |
| zygote | fertilized egg (20 min for fertilization) |
| embryo | -first 8 weeks -most sensitivity to substances |
| fetus (2-9 mos) | placenta |
| 2-5 months | most systems develop except respiratory, immune, etc |
| 5-9 months | weight gain |
| 6-7 months | viability |
| sensorimotor | 0-18 mos 2 years |
| 6 months | crawling, sitting, voluntary grasping |
| 12 months | -talking walking -following objects |
| 8-12 months | object permanence |
| 2nd year | -coordination of schemes -behavioral engineer |
| preoperational | symbolic thought symbolic play- naming role playing house language |
| concrete operational | logical though in concrete situations conservaiton |
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