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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP PSYCH UNIT 5 TEST
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Question 1: Telegraphic Speech
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child will use mostly nouns and verbs
Question 2: Metacognition
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When we think about our thinking, active control and awareness of our own thinking
Question 3: Heritability
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Portion of variation among individuals in a population that results from genetic causes
Question 4: One-Word Stage
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Ages one and two, child speaks mostly in single words
Question 5: Availability Heuristic
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Basing decisions on examples and information that immediately spring to mind
Question 6: Norms
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Each test taker completes the test under the same conditions as all other participants in the sample group
Question 7: Broca's Area
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Production of Speech. functions to help you put words together fluently to speak more than one word at a time, forming complete sentences
Question 8: Mental Set
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Tendency people have to only use solutions that have worked in the past rather than looking for alternative ideas
Question 9: Cognitive Psychology
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The study of internal mental processes (all the things that go on inside your brain)
Question 10: Crystallized Intelligence
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the accumulation of knowledge, facts, and skills that are acquired throughout life, tend to increase with age
Question 11: Wolfgang Kohler
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Studied chips trying to get bananas that were out of reach
Question 12: Broca's aphasia
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characterized by a lack of fluency of speech, usually with preserved language comprehension
Question 13: Aptitude Tests
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Designed to assess what a person is capable of doing or to predict what a person is able to learn or do, often used to assess academic potential or career suitability
Question 14: Heuristics "Rules of Thumb"
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An educated guess based on prior experiences that helps narrow down the possible solutions for a problem
Question 15: Functional Fixedness
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Tendency to view problems only in their customary manner
Question 16: Two-Word Stage
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Age two, a child speaks mostly two-or three word statements "Get Ball"
Question 17: Anchoring Effect (Cognitive Bias)
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Favoring the first information offered
Question 18: Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale (1905)
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Binet and colleague Theodore Simon developed a series of tests designed to assess mental abilities (basis for modern intelligence tests)
Question 19: Robert Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
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Suggested that some of Gardner's types of intelligence are better viewed as individual talents, Three
different factors:
Question 20: Emotional Intelligence
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The ability to perceive, control, and evaluate emotions
Question 21: Linguistic Determinism "Language & Thought"
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Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think
Question 22: Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test
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Lewis Terman modified test for the United States, audience of varied ages and broader range of subjects
Question 23: Individual Tests
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Tests administered to one person by a trained professional
Question 24: Framing (Cognitive Bias)
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The process of presenting or posing an issue or question, how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgments people make
Question 25: Predictive
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test accurately forecasts performance on a future measure
Question 26: Intellectual Disability
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Score two or more standard deviations below the norm on a traditional IQ test (70 IQ or below)
Question 27: Overconfidence
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Tendency to overestimate our own knowledge, skill, or judgment
Question 28: Reliability "Consistency"
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The tendency of a test to produce the same scores again and again each time it is given to the same people