Test 3 Review

Passive Observation/Active Observation

Organizing info into meaningful units to make it easier to remember

How much storage does long-term memory have? How long does it last?

intelligence that reflects the knowledge acquired through experience and the ability to us it.

Failure to notice large changed in one's environment

Assessment of kid's intellectual standing compared to same-age peers

Researcher manipulates one variable to examine its effect on a second variable

Variables change in same direction. Variables change in opposite directions.

Involves remembering to do something at a future time

Memory for knowledge about the world.

Review all proposed research to ensure that it meets scientific & ethical standards

Participants are unaware of which group they're in

The systematic and careful collection of data

The idea that one factor underlies intelligence

The system underlying unconscious memories

Memory for one's personal past experiences

When prior info inhibits the ability to remember new info

The ability to use knowledge to reason, make decisions/sense of events, solve probs, etc

Systematic errors in observation that occur because of an observer's expectations

Encodes the info in more meaningful ways

Intensive examination of unusual people or organizations

When the recall situation is similar to the encoding situation.

An index of intelligence found by dividing kid's mental age by actual age x's 100

Neither the subjects nor the experimenter know the group/condition the participant is assigned

The degree to which the findings can be generalized outside the laboratory

Focuses on how people perform on standardized tests.

The inability to retrieve memory from long-term memory

Rule of Thumb

the system underlying conscious memories

A temporary inability to retrieve specific info (Tip-of-the-Tongue)

Refers to the amount of info held in working memory

Memory system that briefly stores sensory information in close to its original sensory form

Observing & classifying developmental changes in the same people over time

The group that receives the intervention

Compares the working memory to the actions of a computer

Making a decision based on the answer that most easily comes to mind.

Involve observing and classifying developmental changes in dif groups of people at dif times.

Systematic assessment and coding of overt behavior

Placing a person/object in a category if it is similar to one's prototype for that category

Showed the use of 1 word change in a sentence changes how people remember and event

People tend to describe themselves in positive ways that are not necessarily true

An active processing system that keeps dif types of info available for current use

Each participant has equal chance of being assigned to any part of the independent variable

When new info inhibits the ability to remember old info.

Repeating the item over and over

A testable prediction about the outcome that would best support the theory.

The development of biased memories from misleading info

Current skills and knowledge

The ability to recall items from a list depends on order of presentation

The idea that there are dif types of intelligence that are independent of one another

Involves motor skills, habits, & other behaviors employed to achieve goals

Does the data collected vary substantially over time?

The cognitive info retrieved from explicit memory; knowledge that can be declared

Predict what an individual will be good at in the future.

Anything that will help a person (or nonhuman animal) recall info stored in long-term memory

The thing that is measured after the manipulation

Vivid episodic memories for events in which people first learn of surprising, emotional things

Observing & noting the behavior of people/animals to provide a objective analysis of behavior

Examine how variables are naturally related in the real world