PSY BEH 11C Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Walter Mischel, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
26 Apr 2016
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Midterm #1 questions: mary"s high degree of stability in happiness across time could be explained in terms of a genetically influenced happiness set point. In walter mischel"s view of personality, competencies are the ways in which an individual regulates his or her behavior: donna has been told that she should work on her self-esteem. Self-esteem is not always based on an objective self-appraisal. Imagine a graph showing fluid and crystallized intelligence scores as a function of age. Age appears on the x-axis, with increasing age toward the right. One curve portrays fluid intelligence scores; the other, crystallized intelligence scores. Now, she cannot make the necessary adjustment in behavior when a goal changes. Sandy is demonstrating preservation, a problem reflecting damage to the frontal lobe: a mental test is considered reliable if it consistently measures whatever it measures, dr. nguyen believes that intelligence consists of multiple, specialized abilities.
