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| All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. |
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| our tendency to be more confident than correct – to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and knowledge |
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| an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning |
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| Intelligence assessed by intelligence test which present well-defined problems having a single right answer. Such tests predict school grades reasonably well and vocational success more modestly. |
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| the ability to learn from experience ; solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations |
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1. a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem. Contrasts with the usually speedier but also more error-prone use of heuristics |
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1. a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error prone than algorithms |
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| estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances comes readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness), we presume such events are common |
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1. – the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions. |
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- WAIS: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
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1. Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale: the WAIS and its companion version for children are the most widely used intelligence tests, they contain verbal and performance (nonverbal) sub tests. Consists of 15 sub tests. Yields score on overall intelligence and more, such as working memory, verbal comprehension, and perceptual organization |
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1. defining uniform testing and meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group. |
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| – the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to. |
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- Crystallized intelligence
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| our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills, tends to increase with age. |
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| our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease with age, especially during late adulthood. |
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