AP Psych - Semester Exam Review - Unit 5 Cognition

The worldwide phenomenon that intelligence scores are improving

• Forgetting Curve

• Linguistic determinism

• Flynn Effect

• Stanford-Binet

factor that according to Spearman and others, underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test.

• IQ

• General Intelligence (g)

• EQ

• aptitude

Clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited.

• overconfidence

• misinformation effect

• confirmation bias

• belief perseverance

A mental image or best example of a category. Matching new items to this provides a quick and easy method for sorting items into categories.

• prototype

• cognition

• algortihm

• mental set

Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we presume such events are common.

• availability heuristic

• representativeness heuristic

• functional fixedness

• mental set

Our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age.

• crystallized intelligence

• fluid intelligence

• mental set

• heuristics

Our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease with age, especially during late adulthood.

• fluid intelligence

• crystallized intelligence

• mental set

• amnesia

A test designed to predict a person's future performance/ capacity to learn.

• aptitude test

• achievement test

• mental set

• IQ

The extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency on scores of two halves of a test in the alternative forms of a test, or on retesting.

• reliability

• validity

• content validity

• predictive validity

The extents to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to.

• validity

• reliability

• predictive validity

• content validity