General Psych chap 7
______ are NOT the same thing as intellectual or developmental disabilities, but rather specific neurological impairments.
learning disabilities
_____ refers to the vocabulary of a language, or the words contained within that language?
lexicon
A ________ is the smallest unit of language that conveys some type of meaning.
morpheme
Knowing what something is because you have seen/experienced it yourself through direct/indirect is an example of a(n) ________ concept.
natural
_______ involves data collection from a large population is given to a large population to compare comparing groups, such as age groups.
norming
A(an) ________ is a basic sound unit of a given language.
phoneme
_____ are the best example/mental representation of a concept.
prototypes
What is one reason to test/study IQ?
provide support in educational or clinical settings
Who can administer IQ tests?
trained psychologists
_____ _______ is the ability of the brain to think, perceive, plan, analyze, remember.
cognitions
________ are categories or groupings of linguistic information, images, ideas, or memories, such as life experiences.
concepts
_____ bias is when you focus on information that confirms your existing beliefs.
conformational
Knowing what a rainbow is is because you see them outside is a natural concept that was developed through ________ experience.
direct
Knowing what to do when you get on an elevator is an example of ______ schema.
event
_______ is a type of mental set where you cannot perceive an object being used for something other than what it was designed for.
functional fixedness
____ are rules used to convey meaning to lexicon.
grammar
Knowing what a dinosaur is because you looked through a book with pictures of dinosaurs and watched the film Jurassic Park is an example of a natural concept that was developed through ________ experience
indirect
IQ stands for
intelligence quotient
____ is a communication system using words and rules to organize those words.
language
________ developed the first reliable IQ test.
Alfred Binet
______ concepts are ones that we know by a specific set of characteristics
artificial
___ is associated with multiple intelligence theory/
Howard Gardner
_____ are mental constructs consisting of a cluster or collection of related concepts.
schema
Which term refers to the process by which we derive meaning from morphemes and words?
semantics
_____ is the practice of administering, scoring, and interpreting an assessment tool in the same way.
standardization