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Intelligence

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An inferred characteristic usually defined as the ability to profit from experience, acquire knowledge, think abstractly, act purposefully, or adapt to changes in the environment

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G-Factor

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General intellectual ability

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Standard Deviation in IQ

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15

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IQ Below 70

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Considered intellectual delay

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Average IQ

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100

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IQ Tests

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Designed to help educators place students but is not being used to establish intellectual delay or prove that a student is “gifted”

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IQ between 85 and 115

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68% of people

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IQ between 55 and 145

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97.7% of people

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Wechsler IQ Test

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  1. Picture arrangement - Experience
  2. Object assembly - Experience
  3. Digital symbol - Ability
  4. Picture completion - Experience
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WASI Test

Sections: 4

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A very quick IQ test that is usually used in research to fairly accurately give IQ Scores

Sections:

  1. Vocabulary - Experience
  2. Block Design - Ability
  3. Similarities - Experience
  4. Matrix Reasoning - Ability
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Cultural affects on test scores

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  1. Attitude toward exam
  2. Motivation
  3. Rapport with test provider
  4. Competitiveness
  5. Comfort in independent problem solving - Cultural bias
  6. Familiarity with test-taking conventions - Anxiety of testing
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Stereotype threat

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Burden of doubt one feels about his or her performance due to negative stereotypes about his or her group’s abilities

Can cause anxiety, reduce performance, reduce motivation, or “dis-identification”

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Emotional Intelligence

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  1. Ability to identify your own and other people’s emotions accurately
  2. Ability to express emotions clearly
  3. Ability to manage emotions in self and others

Better predictor of success than general IQ

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Heritability

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.87 correlation - identical twins reared together

.72 correlation - identical twins reared apart

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Environmental Contributors to IQ

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  1. Poor prenatal care
  2. Malnutrition
  3. Exposure to toxins
  4. Stressful family experiences
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Motivation

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More important than intellegence

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Cognitive Ethology

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Study of cognitive processes in nonhuman animals

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Stages of Sleep

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  1. Awake (Alpha & Beta activity)
  2. Stage 1 (Theta activity)
  3. Stage 2 (Theta activity with Sleep Spindles & K Complex)
  4. Stages 3 & 4/Slow Wave Sleep (Delta activity)
  5. REM (Theta & Beta Activity)
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Alpha Activity

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Relaxing ( smooth 8-12 Hz)

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Beta Activity

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Highest level of brain activity (13-20 Hz)

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Theta Activity

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Light Sleep (3.5-7.5 Hz)

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Delta Activity

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Slow waves indicating deep sleep

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Sleep Spindles

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Short bursts of high frequency activity

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K Complex

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Short bursts of low frequency activity thought to keep you asleep when sensing non-urgent stimuli

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Frequency
How many time a wave goes up and down in a second
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Amplitude
How big the spikes are
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High levels of brain activity
Low Amplitude/High Frequency
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Low levels of brain activity
High Amplitude/Low Frequency
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Stage 1
Theta Waves - Drifting in and out of light sleep
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Stage 2
Theta Waves with spindles and K Complex
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Stage 3/4 (Slow Wave Sleep)
Stage 3 - Delta Waves less than 49% | Stage 4 - Delta Waves more than 50%
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REM
Theta & Beta Waves | - Paralysis & Rapid Eye Movements
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Sleep Apnea
A sleep disorder caused by some kind of blockage in the respiratory system
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Narcolepsy
A progressive disorder that causes irresistible periods of sleep caused by neurons that produce orexin dying off Paralysis during waking, paralysis just prior to sleep, vivid dreams prior to sleep
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Cataplexy
Complete paralysis during sleeping
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Sleep Paralysis
Paralysis just prior to sleep
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Hypnagogic Hallucinations
Vivid dreams prior to sleep
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REM Sleep Behavior Disorder
Failure to became paralyzed during sleep
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Slow-Wave Sleep Disorders
Bedwetting, sleepwalking, night terrors, sleep-related eating disorders
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Nocturnal Enuresis
Bedwetting
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Somnambulism
Sleep Walking
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Pavor Nocturnus
Night Terrors
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Functions of Slow-Wave Sleep
Consolidates implicit memory - Things that we don't purposely try to remember
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Functions of REM Sleep
Consolidates explicit memory - When you are trying to intentionally remember something
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Adenosine
Limits how excited neurons can get - Cleared through sleeping - Temporarily decreased by caffeine
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Norepinephrine
Noradrenaline - helps with focus | - Highest levels just after waking
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Orexin (AKA Hypocretine)
Awake/Asleep switch | - Regulates sleep cycles
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Circadian rhythm
Fairly consistent 24 hour sleep cycle
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Zeitgebers
Stimulus that resets biological clock | - For humans, sun light
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Hypothalamic Nucleus
The biological clock for body's circadian rhythm
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Suprachiasmatic Nucleaus
Part of the hypothalamic nucleus that resets biological clock
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Animal Intellegency
Animals can... - Anticipate future events - Make plans - Coordinate activities with other animals
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Anthropomorphism
The tendency to falsely attribute human qualities to nonhuman beings
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Anthropodenial
The tendency to think, mistakenly, that human beings have nothing in common with other animals
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Activation-synthesis theory
Dreaming results from the cortical synthesis and interpretation of neural signals triggered by activity in the lower part of the brain Does not explain coherent, story-like dreams or non-REM dreams
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Psychoanalytic model
Interpretations are often far fetched
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Problem-focused model
Skepticism about the ability to solve problems during sleep
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Cognitive model
Some specific claims remain to be tested
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Manifest content
Includes aspects of the dream we consciously experience
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Latent content
Includes unconscious wishes and thoughts symbolized by the dream

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