Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Availability Heuristic, Representativeness Heuristic, Confirmation Bias
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60 multiple choice questions
15 sections specific
look over assignment 4
Chapter 9
senstieve periods: language acquisition follows a particular development
time-table that is common to all cultures
• cooing and crying, babbling, phonmenes, one word utterances,
increased coab, two word utterances
• videos on genie, languge skills were bad because she didn’t have
interactions
• victor the wld boy→ not introduced to language and couldn’t pick up
Processing languages:
bottom up→ anazlyzing and combining single elements into a unififed whole
(learning to read)
Top down: interpreting stimuli in terms of existing knowledge (words can be
scrambled and we can still read it
Language relativity hypothesis: language can influence how we think ( a
psychologist is good. He is …→ the way it is worded suggests it’s a masculine
theory)
Billingualism: 18% speak English and French
• learned best druign sensitive period
Thought→ propositional, Imaginal, motoric
• deductive reasoning→ basis of mathematics and logic
• inductive reasoning→ starts with specific facts and try to develop a
general principle → Leads to linkilehood rather than certaintiy
Problems with reasoning: irrelevant info, belief bias, emotions, framing
Problem solving→ 4 stems
• Mental set: tendency to stick with things that have worked in the
past
• making judgementsL representativeness heuristic, availability
heuristic, confirmation bias, overconfidence (sharks in the movie
jaws, fewer people showed up to the beach→ availably heurisitic)
Chapter 10: intelligence
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• Crystallized vs Fluid Intellignce
• Three-stratim Model: general, broad, narrow
• Triarchic theory: meta-, performance. And knowledge-aquisiition
cmponents
• Gardners multiple intellignces: there are many kinds of intelligence
• Emotional intelligence: perceiving, using, understanding, and
regulating emoitions
Intelligence-Testing Industry
• 1920s US Stanford-Binet Test
o mostly verbal items, single iq score
o used mostly for army recruits
o educators wanted tests for children
• Intellignve Tests industry was born
o WEschler-VERbal and NONverbal
Achievement vs, adptidue
Test concpets: relaibility, validity, standardization
Group differences--> outcome bias: test undersetomates a person’s true
intellectual abilitites, predictive bias: test successfully predicts criterion
measrues for some groups but not for others
• ethnic differences have been shrinking over the past 25 years
• genetic differences tend to be greater withing a given racial feoup
than between racial groups
Chapter 11:
homeotstatiss
drives states of internal tension that maintain homeostasis
masolw→ self actualization
sexual violence → strongest effects emerge for violent pornography
catharsis principle: we perform acts of aggression to dischange aggressive
energy
Social learning
Motive for success
• people with a high motivation for success focus on
o mastery goals: intrinsic motivation (study harder, better long
term retention)
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Processing languages: bottom up anazlyzing and combining single elements into a unififed whole (learning to read) Top down: interpreting stimuli in terms of existing knowledge (words can be scrambled and we can still read it. Language relativity hypothesis: language can influence how we think ( a psychologist is good. He is the way it is worded suggests it"s a masculine theory) Billingualism: 18% speak english and french learned best druign sensitive period. Thought propositional, imaginal, motoric: deductive reasoning basis of mathematics and logic inductive reasoning starts with specific facts and try to develop a general principle leads to linkilehood rather than certaintiy. Problems with reasoning: irrelevant info, belief bias, emotions, framing. Chapter 10: intelligence: crystallized vs fluid intellignce, three-stratim model: general, broad, narrow, triarchic theory: meta-, performance. And knowledge-aquisiition cmponents: gardners multiple intellignces: there are many kinds of intelligence, emotional intelligence: perceiving, using, understanding, and regulating emoitions.
