Unit 5: Cognitive Psychology

The rise in average IQ scores that has occurred over the decades in many nations

• next-in-line effect

• Flynn effect

• spacing effect

• serial position affect

language development; disagreed with Skinner about language acquisition, humans have an inborn native ability to develop language

• Spearman

• Ebbinghaus

• Noam Chomsky

• Gardner

created the forgetting curve and serial position effect in memory

• Spearman

• Sternberg

• Gardner

• Ebbinghaus

cognition and memory; studied repressed memories and false memories; showed how easily memories could be changed and falsely created by techniques such as leading questions and illustrating the inaccuracy in eyewitness testimony

• Elizabeth Loftus

• spearman

• Gardner

• Sternberg

proposed that general intelligence is linked to many clusters that can be analyzed by factor analysis (he made up factor analysis)

• Binet

• Spearman

• Terman

• Sternberg

wanted to broaden definition of intelligence, created 8 types of intelligence (Logical Mathematical, Linguistic, Musical, Spatial, body kinesthetic, intrapersonal (self), interpersonal (others), and naturalist)

• Gardner

• Sternberg

• Binet

• Terman

created his three types of intelligences (analytical, creative, and practical)

• Weslcher

• Terman

• Sternberg

• Binet

published first useful test of general mental ability to predict school success; broke kids up into 'bright' and 'dull' by how they compared with both their chronological age and mental age

• Terman

• Wechsler

• Elizabeth Loftus

• Binet

Created the Stanford-Binet intelligence test based on the Binet original, also did a longitudinal study of gifted children and determined they are emotionally stable and happier than children of average intelligence

• Terman

• Binet

• Spearman

• Wechlser

developed the WAIS (adult) and WISC (children) - most commonly used intelligence tests today

• Whorf

• Wechsler

• Spearman

• Skinner