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unit 5 quizizz 1 Flashcards

1
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what is the availability heuristic

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a type of cognitive bias that helps us make fast but sometimes incorrect assessments

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2
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what is not one of Howard Gardners multiple intelligences

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practical

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3
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what is implicit memory

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the information that we do not intentionally store which is unintentionally memorized

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4
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what is explicit memory

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the intentional recollection of information, experiences, or concepts

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5
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paired associate learning

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learning and remembering the associations between stimuli that are artificially associated

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6
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hypothetical thinking

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imagining possibilities and exploring their consequences

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divergent thinking

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utilizing the mind to create multiple ideas or solutions to a single problem

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8
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what is the standardization sample

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the people used to represent the population for whom the test was intended

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9
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what did chomsky do for childhood language

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when the child begins hearing language, appropriate settings or standards regarding the rules of that language are activated in the Childs language acquisition device

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10
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which test is designed to measure an individuals knowledge of a subject

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achievement

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attach meaning to info through deep processing to remember

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elaborative rehearsal

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12
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what is a savant

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a person with lower than avg intelligence who has an amazing mental skill

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13
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what is the representativeness heuristic

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occurs when we estimate the probability of an event based on how similar it is to a known situation

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14
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what is a test that measures a persons mastery and knowledge of a subject

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achievement test

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15
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what is the most commonly used individual intelligence test

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wechsler intelligence scales

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16
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what is the “ed” in helped and called

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a morpheme

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17
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if a test is reliable…

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it yields consistent results

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18
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what is episodic memory

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the ability to learn, store, and retrieve info about personal experiences

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19
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what is procedural memory

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remembering how to perform actions

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what is
semantic memory

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conscious long term memory used for meaning, understanding, and conceptual facts

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what is declarative memory

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the conscious recollection of experiences, events, and information used in everyday living

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22
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what is conformation bias

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looking for information that is consistent with ones beliefs

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23
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what is a achievement test

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a test used to examine someones knowledge on a specific skill

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24
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what is an aptitude test

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a test used to determine an individuals skill or weakness

25
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what did spearman argue

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that intelligence could be boiled down to one ability known as general intelligence

26
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what is introverted intelligence

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focus on ones own thoughts

27
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what is general intelligence

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common knowledge

28
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Atkinson and shiffrin did what

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made the three stage model

29
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terms in the three stage model

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sensory, short term, and long term memory

30
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what kind of forgetting is tip of the tongue phenomenon

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retrieval failure

31
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what is encoding failure

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when info fails to be transferred and stored in the memory system

32
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what is retrieval failure

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info in a long term memory cannot be accessed

33
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what is motivated forgetting

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people forget things because they do not want to remember them

34
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who would likely say that children generalize their words

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chomsky

35
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who was bf skinner

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behaviorist theory, language acquired through operant conditioning (reinforcement)

36
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who was bejaman lee whorf

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proposed that language influences thought

37
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who was hermann ebbinghaus

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discovered the forgetting curve and spacing effect

38
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primacy effect

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a cognitive bias that refers to an individuals tendency to better remember the first piece of information that they encounter

39
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sensory memory

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mental representation of how environmental events process with the five senses

40
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what is whorfs hypothesis

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language influences the way a person thinks

41
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what is cognitive accommodation

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development and alteration of ones learning knowledge when encountering new situations

42
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what is functional fixedness

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a bias where you can only see objects as working in a particular way

43
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what is proactive interference

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when old memories interfere with the retrieval of new ones

44
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retroactive interference

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when newer memories interfere with the retrieval of old ones

45
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various vowel sounds that differ per language

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phonemes

46
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formula for iq

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mental age/ actual age x 100

47
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validity means

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a test measures what it is supposed to measure

48
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what is framing

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how an option is presented

49
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what is belief bias

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judging the validity of a claim based on how believable it is to them

50
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what is confirmation bias

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new info confirms preexisting beliefs and opinions

51
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the magical number seven plus or minus two

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short term memory

52
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construct validity

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evaluates how well the test measures the concept that it is intended to measure

53
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content validity

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evaluates how well a test covers all relevant parts of the topic that it wants to measure

54
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what point do people usually fall within 30 points of on the iq score

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100

55
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automatic processing

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the type of thinking that does not involve any effort

56
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priming

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when exposure to a stimulus influences a response to the prompt without awareness of a connection

57
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the serial position effect

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the tendency to remember the first and last items in a list better than middle ones

58
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spacing effect

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repetitions spaced in time tend to produce stronger memories than repetitions massed closer in time together

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