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What does intelligence predict? - ✔✔Academic, economic, occupational success & success on standardized tests Where does intelligence come from? - ✔✔Genetics, family environment, schooling What is Carroll's Three-Tiered Model (factor analysis)? - ✔✔ 1 ) General intelligence (g) 2 ) Basic intelligence (eg. fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence, general memory & learning) 3 ) A set of specific abilities Who invented the first IQ test? - ✔✔Alfred Binet (Binet-Simon intelligence test; 1904 ) What is the mean score on IQ tests designed to be? - ✔✔ 100 What is the standard deviation on IQ tests designed to be? - ✔✔ 15 Are IQ tests more reliable in short-term or long-term? - ✔✔More reliable in short-term What are the 7 types of intelligence in Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences? - ✔✔Linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, nature (new), bodily-kinesthetic, spatial, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. What is the Flynn effect? - ✔✔IQ scores have consistently risen around the world.
What are possible reasons for the Flynn effect? - ✔✔Increased nutrition, increased health, better formal education and increased "abstraction" Where is the Flynn effect slope steepest? - ✔✔Low SES communities and developing countries. What type of intelligence cannot be measured by IQ tests? - ✔✔Emotional intelligence When solving emotional problems, who shows LESS brain activation? - ✔✔Individuals with HIGH emotional intelligence What is emotion comprised of? - ✔✔Neural response, subjective feelings, physiological response, cognitive response and desire to take action (behavioural response) What are the 2 dimensions of emotion? - ✔✔Valence (positive/negative) and psychological arousal (severity) What are the 4 major theories of emotion? - ✔✔Common sense, James-Lange, Cannon-Bard and two- factor What is the James-Lange theory? - ✔✔stimulus --> physiological response - -> emotional response What is the Cannon-Bard theory? - ✔✔stimulus --> physiological & emotional response simultaneously What is the Two-Factor (Schachter) theory? - ✔✔stimulus --> physiological response --> brain interprets physiological response emotionally What is the Common Sense theory? - ✔✔stimulus --> emotional response --> physiological response What are the 2 major neural structures related to emotion? - ✔✔Amygdala & prefrontal cortex
What are the levels of Maslow's needs hierarchy? - ✔✔Physiological needs, safety and security needs, belonging and love needs, esteem needs and need for self-actualization What is the study of human development? - ✔✔The examination of continuity and change across the lifespan. What are the 4 main periods of human development? - ✔✔Prenatality and infancy (conception to 2 - 3 years), childhood (2- 3 years to 11 years), adolescence ( 12 - 17 years) and adulthood (1 8 years to death) What is autobiographical memory? - ✔✔A collaboration of semantic and episodic memory What are the 3 stages of prenatal development? - ✔✔Germinal ( 0 - 2 weeks), embryonic ( 2 - 8 weeks) and fetal stage ( 9 - 40 weeks) During what prenatal development stage are neurogenesis and myelination? - ✔✔Fetal stage What are the developmental processes in brain development? - ✔✔Neural tube formation, neurogenesis, myelination, synaptogenesis and synaptic pruning What stimuli do fetuses experience in utero? - ✔✔Tastes and smells, sounds, tactile sensation and sights What is exogenous experience? - ✔✔Experience that comes from outside the organism itself What is endogenous stimulation? - ✔✔Stimuli generated by the organism itself What are teratogens? - ✔✔External agents that cause damage or death during prenatal development (most common: alcohol) What does Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)? - ✔✔Facial deformities, intellectual disability, attention disability and behaviour disorders
What is a typical birth like? - ✔✔There is no such thing as this. How does a neonate spend their day? - ✔✔Quiet sleep ( 8 hrs); active sleep ( 8 hrs); drowsing ( 1 hr); alert awake ( 2 .5 hrs); active awake ( 2 .5 hrs); crying ( 2 hrs) What is PURPLE crying? - ✔✔A period in which infants cry more (birth to 6 weeks) What is sensation? - ✔✔Sensory organs' detection of signals in the environment What is perception? - ✔✔Organization and interpretation of the sensory information into coherent understanding of objects, individuals, events What is preferential looking? - ✔✔Infants (like adults) spending more time looking at objects and events that are interesting, stimulating or familiar What are some of newborns' motor skills? - ✔✔Grasping, rooting, sucking, swallowing and tonic neck reflex What motor skills continue throughout the lifetime? - ✔✔Coughing, sneezing, blinking and withdrawal from pain
