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| word or phrase to avoid harsh, unpleasant reality ex.death v.s. perpetual sleep |
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| language of a trade profession efficiency for those in a group ex. glass=fused silicate |
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| gobbledygook/bureaucretese |
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piling on words to overwhelm audience
-sloppy/careless thinking
-crafted to confuse |
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| makes the ordinary and simple seem complex ex. toothbrush= oral hygiene appliance |
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| statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related terms (called factors) on a test, to identify differnt dimentions of performance that underlie ones total score |
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| specufuc mental abilities adn is therefore measured by every task on an intellegence test |
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| condition when a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill sch as music, computers, drawing ect. |
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| ability to understand, manage, and use emotions |
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| Nessier's selective attention test |
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| focus your attention on just a few limited aspects of our experience. our attenion is selective |
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| Sternbery and Lubart theory of intellegence |
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| holds few items briefly like a phone number and then lost |
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| concious, active processing of incoming auditory, visual spacial information. includes info from long term memory |
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relatively permanant. infinate space
(skils, knowlege, experiences) |
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| clear memory of an emotionally significant event (such as 9/11 or traumatic event) |
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| Akinson- Shiffrins Three Stage procesessing model of memory |
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1.external even->-sensory input
2.sensory memory->-encoding
3.short-term memory->-encoding through rehearsal
4.Stored in Long term memory |
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| widely used American revision of Binets origional intellegence test |
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| predicts your ability to learn a new skill |
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| reflects what you have already learned |
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| Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) |
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| most widley used intelligence test it contains verbal and performance subtests |
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| extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to |
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| the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest (ex.driving test that samples driving tasks) |
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| the behavior (like future college grades) that a test (like the SAT) is designed to predict |
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| success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict. assesed by computing the correlation between test scores and the criterion behavior |
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