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| Crystallized Intelligence |
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| Ability to use skills, knowledge, and experience |
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| Emotional Intelligence (EI) |
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| The ability to identify, use, understand, and manage emotions in positive ways to relieve stress |
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| Condition of mental retardation and associated physical disorders caused by an extra chromosome |
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| A disorder marked by physical defects and mental retardation that can afflict the offspring of women who drink alcohol during pregnancy |
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| The ability to solve problems and think creatively |
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| Also known as talented; Posseses demonstrated or potential abilites that give evidence of high performance responsibilty |
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| The ability to reason, solve problems well, and to understand and learn complex material |
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| Intelligence Quotient (IQ) |
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| A score on an intelligence test |
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| Mentally Retarded/ Intellectually Disabled |
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| Below average intellectual functioning as measured on IQ tests; Accompanied by substantial limitation in functioning that originate before age 18 |
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| Someone who is highly precautious in a specific domain of an endeavor |
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| Theory of Multiple Intelligences |
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| Thomas Gardners theory that intelligence is composed of numerous unrelated forms of intelligence behavior and abilities |
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| Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) |
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| An intelligence test for adults that provides three IQ's : verbal, performance, and full scale |
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| 6 basic emotions: happy, sad, anger, fear, surprise, disgust |
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| People tend to view themselves as members of a specific group |
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| State of arousal / tension that motivates behaviors |
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| Experience of feeling that underlies behavior; activates and affects behavior |
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| Facial Feedback Hypothesis |
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| The idea that facial expressions trigger the experience of emotion |
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| Society that values individualism as a whole |
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| Specific inborn behavior patterns |
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| When a person starts to believe that their actions have no affect on the environment |
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| Inner directing force or desire |
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| An act towards a goal; need for satisfaction |
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| Measures human responses to questions; measures heart rate, perspiration, and nervous system arousal |
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| A desire to possess or do something |
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| Thoughts formed or collective memories passed down from generation to generation and stored in the collective unconscious |
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| Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism |
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| Self destructive way of dealing with stress; Automatic subconscious reaction to emotional injury |
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| Mediates between the Id and Superego |
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The state of thinking or hoping that something, especially something pleasant, will happen |
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| Consists of a moral; Irrational instincts for self gratification |
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| An unrealistic feeling of general inadequacy cause by actual or supposed inferiority |
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| Cognitive strategies used to evaluate situations |
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| Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory; Used to develop a scale for assessment of psychiatric patients |
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| An individuals characteristics pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting |
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| A questionaire in whivh people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings / behaviors |
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| A characteristic pattern of behavior |
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| People express their inner feelings and interest through stories they make up about ambiguous scenes |
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Oral stage ( birth - 1 year )
Anal stage ( 1 - 3 years )
Phallic stage ( 3 - 6 years )
Latency period ( 6 - puberty )
Genital stage ( puberty onward ) |
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| Seeks to identify peoples inner thoughts / feelings by analyzing the interpretations of the ink blots |
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| Individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage |
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| The motivation to fufill one's potential |
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| A person's beliefs in a given situation ; The belief that you can do something greatly increases the possibility you can do it |
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| Tendency to give socially acceptable answers to questions about oneself |
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| Embodies the external morality imposed on the personality by society |
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| Unconditional Positive Regard |
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| According to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person |
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Thematic Apperception Test ; Asserts that a person's responses reveal underlying motives, concerns, and the way they see the social world through the stories they make up |
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The tendency of human infants and animals to become emotionally close to certain individuals and to be calm and soothed while in their presence
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| Language development, repetition, and sing- song speech |
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| The understanding that certain physical characteristics of an object remain the same even though its outward appearance is changed |
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| Measures a variable across several age groups at the same time |
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| In a toddler, the belief that others perceive the world in the same way that he or she does |
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| An unborn or unhatched offspring in the process of development |
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| An unborn human baby more than eight weeks after conception |
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| One of Piaget's stages ; The ability to use abstract thinking |
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| Expectations of a gender by society |
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| Language Aquisition Device |
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| Processing capacity that is programmed to recognize the universal rules that underlie any particular language that a child might hear |
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| Research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period of time |
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An internal conflict between two actions which are represented by personal beliefs
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| The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived |
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Overregularization is a part of the language -learning process in which children extend regular grammatical patterns to irregular words |
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Psychoanalytic theory which identifies eight stages through which a healthily developing human should pass from infancy to late adulthood |
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Collection of beliefs about oneself that includes elements such as academic performance, gender roles and sexuality, and racial identity |
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Speech during the two-word stage of language acquisition in children, which is laconic and efficient |
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Any agent that can disturb the development of an embryo or fetus |
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A eukaryotic cell formed by a fertilization event between two gametes |
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