General Psych chap 7

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______ 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


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