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Psych 9 continued 14 & up
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Psychology
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04/16/2010

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Savant syndrome is retardation combined with incredible ability in one specific area the existence of savant syndrome seems to support
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Spearmans notion of general intelligence or g factor
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Intelligence tests predict school grades reasonably well but are less successful at predicting achievement in other areas robert strernberg has therefor id'd three aspects of intelligence which are
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Academic practical and creative
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Emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive understand and regulate emotions Emotionally intelligent people are characterized by
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Self awareness
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Creativity is the ability to produce novel and caluable ideas which of the following is not a creative characteristic : expertise extrinsic motivation a venturesome personality imaginative thinking skills
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extrinsic motivation
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The Wechsler adult inelligence scale yields an overall intelligence score as well as separate vebal and performance scores the wais is vest able to tell us
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How the test taker compares with other adults in vocab and arithmetic reasoning
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The stanford binet the wechsler asult intel scale and the wechsler intel scale for kids are known to have high reliability this means that
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the test yields consistent results for example on retesting
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About 50 percent of intelligence score variation among individuals can be attributed to heredity the strongest support for heredity's influence on intelligence is the finding that
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the correlation between intelligence test scores of fraternal twins is higher than that for other siblings
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The heritability of a trait may vary depending on the range of populations and environments studied to say that the heritablility of intelligence is about 50 percent of
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the variation in intelligence within a group of people is attributable to genetic factors
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Within the limits set by heredity experiences help shape intelligence the experience that has the clearest most profound effect on intellectual development is
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Being raised in a very neglectful home or institution
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