AP Psychology: Unit 5

The extent to which the test predicts what it is supposed to.

The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis argues that

Parents of a murderer, refuse to believe their kid did it despite evidence.

You are more worried about flying than driving because you still remember 9/11 vividly despite driving being more deadly

What is the critical period for primary language acquisition?

Believed in one general intelligence (g-factor) that can be measured with factor analysis.

What is the mean IQ score globally?

A mental a great, abstract example of something. Ex. Thinking of a dog and you think about a labrador retriever.

1. All dolphins are mammals. 2. All mammals have kidneys. Therefore, all dolphins have kidneys.

Having an IQ of 67 means that someone is

___________ refers to the ordering of words when making a sentence

We judge how something represents, or matches, certain prototypes we have. (stereotyping)

1. Every year we get a thunderstorm in May. 2. Since it is May, therefore, we will get a thunderstorm.

What key figure believed we are innately built to learn languages?

What area of the brain is associate with speech production?

Your ability to process new information, learn, and solve problems; decreases after about 30 years of age.

This is the more logical way of thinking, in which we narrow the solutions to a problem till we find the best one.

A cognitive bias that limits a person to use an object only in the way it is normally used.

The basic sound units of language.

Having uniform testing procedures and the test must be graded the same way for everyone ensures

Proposed that there are independent multiple intelligences exist, representing unique skills and talents

The stage starting around 6 months where babies say random phonemes and practice language production.

The smallest meaningful units of speech.

Stanford psychologist who built on the Binet-Simon test in the US to assess soldiers entering WWI.

IQ = ??

The Stanford-Binet Scale measured for

What area of the brain is associate with langauge comprehension?

Robert Sternberg is most associated with what theory of intelligence

Cousin of Darwin, first to study human intelligence; eugenicist, who operationalized intelligence to reaction time.

Test designed to predict someone's success in the future within a narrow domain. Ex. ACT or SAT and college success.

"want juice" is an example of

The Binet-Simon test, measured for

Step by step method that guarantees to solve a particular problem.

A psychometrician would most likely do what?

1. Red meat has iron in it, and 2. beef is red meat. Therefore, beef has iron in it.

The rules of a language; how words should be combined to communicate meaning

Trying to solve a problem multiple times using multiple methods.

A mental grouping of similar things

Divergent thinking is creative thinking that expands the number of solutions instead of finding the best answer

John refuses to watch Fox News because he is very liberal; he only watches MSNBC and reads the liberal newspapers.

You do well on a test, because you are smart; You fail a test; it is because your teacher didn't prepare you for it.

A cognitive bias that causes us to rely too heavily on the first piece of information we are given about a topic.

IQ = ??

The "gut-feeling" phenomenon, where you sense something is correct without a direct reason to believe so.

Mental “shortcuts” often based on experience; usually fast and efficient; but do not always work.

Your teacher designs 2 tests to prevent cheating and you get an A on version 1, but a C on version 2; the tests are not

French psychologist who helped the French government design a test to measure children's learning abilities.

What is the mean IQ score globally?

Stored knowledge, accumulated over time, such as facts learned in school or specific skills, increases with age.

What key figure believed we have language acquisition devices that innately enable predispose us to learn languages?