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Congnition is a synonym for
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Thinking
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When you took your college entrance exam, students across the country took the same test at the same time with the same insturctions. Whar characteristic of a good psychological test do these similarites reflect?
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Standardization
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What number reflects the amount of differences in a population attribtable to genetic influences?
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Heritability
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The individual test most often given to adults is the
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The WAIS-III
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What is one criticism of the conslusions offered by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray in the Bell Curve?
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They failed to distinguish between correlation and causation
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According to the Atkinson and Shiffrin model of memory, what happens when we actively think about something that we have previously learned?
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The memory is recalled from LTM and is placed in STM
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What are the metal categories representing activites, objects, qualities or situations that share some common charactieristics?
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Concepts
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Psychological tests that yeild relativily consisten results are said to be
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Reliable
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Ted and Jessica's son was recently diagnosed as mentally retarded. What is his likely deree of retardation?
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Mild
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Which of the following questions would be more likely to produce divergent thinking?
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"How many uses can you think of for a stapler?"
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A form of intelligence that refers to how effectibely people perceive and understand their own feelings and the feelings of otthers, is ______ intelligence.
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Emotional
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On MOnday, Sal took a test developed to measre levels of sensation seeking and obtained a score of 13; he took the same test one week later and obtained the same score. Based on this information, you can most accurately conclude that the testis likely to be
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Reliable
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The Biney and Simon intelligence test measured children on what new concept?
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Mental age
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What problem-solving stratefies dont guarantee solutions but make efficien use of time?
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Heuristics
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Which of these might be an examle of a performace item on the Wechsler tests of intelligence?
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Using blocks to make a design like the one shown in a picture
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