AP Psych - Semester Exam Review - Unit 5 Cognition

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The worldwide phenomenon that intelligence scores are improving

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Flynn Effect

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factor that according to Spearman and others, underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test.

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General Intelligence (g)

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Clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited.

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belief perseverance

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A mental image or best example of a category. Matching new items to this provides a quick and easy method for sorting items into categories.

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prototype

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Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we presume such events are common.

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availability heuristic

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Our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age.

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crystallized intelligence

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Our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease with age, especially during late adulthood.

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fluid intelligence

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A test designed to predict a person's future performance/ capacity to learn.

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aptitude test

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The extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency on scores of two halves of a test in the alternative forms of a test, or on retesting.

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reliability

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The extents to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to.

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validity