Psychology AP Unit 4 Vocab
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| 594153714 | Mild Retardation | IQ of 55 | |
| 594153715 | Weschler | Corrected earlier intelligence tests by adding a "performance scale" | |
| 594153716 | Content Validity | type of validity that indicates the material on a test is representative of the domain it's intended to cover | |
| 594153717 | Correlation Coefficient | Test-Retest reliability is calculated in terms of this | |
| 594153718 | Profound | classification of retardation in which one needs total care | |
| 594153719 | Consistency | Test criterion which requires tests to be consistent | |
| 594153720 | Interpersonal | Type of intelligence that allows one to "read people" well, and understand their moods | |
| 594153721 | Creativity | Generating ideas that are original, useful, and novel | |
| 594153722 | construct Validity | Type of validity that shows evidence that a test measures certain abstract qualities such as creativity | |
| 594153723 | test norms | criterion that allows you to relate your score on a test to that of others | |
| 594153724 | intrapersonal | type of intelligence in which one can understand one's own behaviors, moods and motivations | |
| 594153725 | gifted | IQ of 130 or above | |
| 594153726 | Aptitude | Type of cognitive test that measures specific mental abilities and tries to predict potential in area | |
| 594153727 | Achievement | Type of cognitive test that measures mastery of knowledge in a certain subject | |
| 594153728 | IQ | first measured by Stanford-Binet; mental age, divided by chronological age, multiplied by 100 | |
| 594153729 | Retroactive interference | when new material inhibits the retention of older material | |
| 594153730 | Explicit/Declarative | Demands conscious attention; types are Semantic and Episodic | |
| 594153731 | Implicit | Muscle memory | |
| 594153732 | Semantic Explicit Type | Encyclopedic memory where things are or who people are | |
| 594153733 | Episodic Explicit Type | Autobiographic memory, personal account | |
| 594153734 | Recognition | Identifying a perpetrator from choices or options | |
| 594153735 | Recall | A police sketch from scratch | |
| 594153736 | Pseudomemories | false memories | |
| 594153737 | Repression | Memory buried down deep, traumatic, this is a defensive coping mechanism, quick fix but not in best interest | |
| 594153738 | misinformation effect | can misinform someone, you can distort their memory by doing so | |
| 594153739 | Anterograde Amnesia | can't make new memories | |
| 594153740 | Retrograde Amnesia | Can't remember events before brain damage | |
| 594153741 | Proactive interference | where previous info is blocking new info | |
| 594153742 | Serial Position Effect | position of an item in a series of items make difference in whether you remember it or not | |
| 594153743 | Primacy Effect | if you remember the 1st things said | |
| 594153744 | Recency Effect | If you remember the last things said | |
| 594153745 | State-Dependent Memory | Research shows that when you are in a learning environment it should be as similar as possible to the recalling environment to jog memory | |
| 594153746 | Mood-Congruent Memory | Mood when encoding info should be similar to when recalling | |
| 594153747 | Content-Dependent Memory | Space and area should be as similar as possible when learning and recalling | |
| 594153748 | Spacing Effect | If you spread out learning over time you retain better | |
| 594153749 | Imagery | way of encoding, uses images | |
| 594153750 | Semantics | way of encoding, making it meaningful so it sticks well to brain | |
| 594153751 | Overlearning | way of encoding, elaborating, extending your imagination to build multiple encoding levels | |
| 594153752 | Self-Referent | way of encoding, making it personally meaningful information so it sticks longer | |
| 594153753 | Emotional | way of encoding, if information is emotional it will stick longer | |
| 594153754 | flashbulb memory | emotional event that sticks to your brain | |
| 594153755 | Sensory Memory | Way of Storage, split second memory unless paid attention | |
| 594153756 | Iconic | Way of Storage, visual sensory memory | |
| 594153760 | Acoustic/Echoic | Way of Storage sound sensory memory | |
| 594153762 | Eidetic | Way of Storage photographic memory | |
| 594153765 | Phonemes | most basic unit of sound in a language, i.e. A - 3 phonemes | |
| 594153767 | Morphemes | most basic unit of meaning, i.e. root words or prefixes |
