Psychology Flashcard

Front

Activity in the brain when a person is organizing/understanding information is called?

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Cognition

Front

The ability to learn from experiences, acquire knowledge and use resources in adapting to new situations is called?

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Intelligence

Front

Ideas used to describe a class or category of objects, events, or activities

Back

Concepts

Front

Which one of the following is NOT an intelligence in the Triarchic theory?
Practical intelligence, Situational intelligence, Creative intelligence, Analytical intelligence

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Situational intelligence

Front

What refers to the representation of the results of a test given to a large group of people for which it is designed for?

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Standardization

Front

Which of the following refers to an assumption that any object sharing characteristics with the members of a particular category is also a member of that category? Availability heuristic, Heuristic, Representativeness heuristic, Algorithm

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Representativeness heuristic

Front

Divergent thinking is the idea that you have one use for one point only?

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False

Front

Which ability, proposed by Charles Spearman, does general reasoning and problem solving fall under?

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general intelligence

Front

Which form of intelligence is often referred to as “street smarts”?

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practical

Front

Which process is also referred to as, “rule of thumb?”

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heuristic