FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CH 9

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CH 9

SIGELMAN &RIDER EXAM QUESTIONS Actual Qs and Ans Expert-Verified Explanation

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-Guarantee passing score -37 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation

Question 1: dysrationalia

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A term coined by Keith Stanovich for a quite common inability to think and behave rationally despite having adequate intelligence.

Question 2: analytic component

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In Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence, the information-processing skills such as thinking critically and analytically.

Question 3: wisdom

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A combination of rich factual knowledge about life and procedural knowledge such as strategies for giving advice and handling conflicts.

Question 4: cumulative-deficit hypothesis

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The notion that impoverished environments inhibit intellectual growth and that these inhibiting effects accumulate over time.

Question 5: Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale

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One of the most widely used, individually administered intelligence tests, which yields an IQ score.

Question 6: savant syndrome

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The phenomenon in which extraordinary talent in a particular area is displayed by a person who is otherwise mentally retarded.

Question 7: automatization

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The process by which information processing becomes effortless and highly efficient as a result of continued practice or increased expertise.

Question 8: psychometric approach

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The research tradition that spawned standardized tests of intelligence and that views intelligence (or personality) as a set of traits that can be measured and that varies from person to person.

Question 9: stereotype threat

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An individual's fear of being judged to have the qualities associated with negative stereotypes of his or her social group.

Question 10: creativity

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The ability to produce novel responses or works; see also divergent thinking.

Question 11: intellectual disability

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Significantly below-average intellectual functioning with limitations in areas of adaptive behavior such as self-care and social skills, originating before age 18 (previously known as mental retardation).

Question 12: terminal drop

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A rapid decline in intellectual abilities that people within a few years of dying often experience.

Question 13: ideational fluency

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The sheer number of different (including novel) ideas that a person can generate; a measure of creativity or divergent thinking.

Question 14: Bayley Scales of Infant Development (BSID)

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Standardized test to measure the mental, motor, and behavioral progress of infants and young children.

Question 15: Wechsler Scales

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A set of widely used, individually administered intelligence tests that yield verbal, performance, and overall IQ scores.

Question 16: triarchic theory of intelligence

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Sternberg's information-processing theory of intelligence that emphasizes three aspects of intelligent behavior: a practical component emphasizing the effect of context on what is intelligent; a creative component centering on coping with both novel and familiar problems; and an analytic component focused on the cognitive processes used to solve a problem.

Question 17: convergent thinking

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Thinking that involves "converging" on the one best answer to a problem; what IQ tests measure.Contrast with divergent thinking.

Question 18: Flynn effect

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The rise in average IQ scores over the 20th century.

Question 19: crystallized intelligence

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Those aspects of intellectual functioning that involve using knowledge acquired through experience.Contrast with fluid intelligence.

Question 20: giftedness

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The possession of unusually high general intellectual potential or of special abilities in such areas as creativity, mathematics, or the arts.

Question 21: General Adaptive Composite (GAC)

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An overall score on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development reflecting the cognitive, language, motor, and social-emotional development of an infant in comparison with a large norm group of infants or toddlers the same age.

Question 22: intelligence quotient (IQ)

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A numerical measure of a person's performance on an intelligence test relative to the performance of other examinees of the same age, typically with a score of 100 defined as average.

Question 23: successful intelligence

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Sternberg's concept that people are intelligent to the extent that they are able to succeed in life in their sociocultural context.Question 24: Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) inventory

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A widely used instrument that allows an observer to determine how intellectually stimulating or impoverished a home environment is.

Question 25: practical component

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In Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence, the aspect of intelligence that varies from one sociocultural context to another.