PSYCHOLOGY

an active system that recieves information from the senses, puts that information into a usable form and organizes it as it stores it away, and then retrieves the information from storage

mental activity that goes on in the brain when a person is organizing & attempting to understand information & communicating information to others.

ideas that represent a class or catagory of objects, events or activities

process of cognition that occurs when a goal must be reached by thinking & behaving in certain ways

problem solving method in which one possible solution after another is tried until a successful one is found

very specific, step-by-step procedures for solving certain types of problems

an educated guess based on prior experiences that helps narrow down the possible solutions for a problem. Also known as "rule of thumb"

thinking in which a problem is seen as having only one answer, and all lines of thinking will eventually lead to that single answer, using previous knowledge and logic

type of thinking in which a person starts from one point & comes up with many different ideas or possibilities based on that point

the rules for determining the meaning of words & sentences

the basic units of sound in language

the smallest units of meaning within a language

the system of rules for combingin words & phrases to form grammatically correct sentences

the theory that thought processes & concepts are controlled by language

the system of rules governing the structure & use of language

the ability to learn from ones experience, acquire knowledge, and use resources effectively in adapting to new situations or solving problems

the tendency of a test to produce the same scores again and again each time it is given to the same people

the degree to which a test actually measures what its suppose to measure

a distribution in which the scores are the most frequent around the mean, or average and becomes less and less frequent the further from the mean they occur

series of tests designed for specific age groups. They each have VERBAL nad PERFORMANCE skill (most accurate) (helps diagnose peoblems in children)

the process of giving the test to a large group of people that represents the kind of people for whom the test was designed

alternate name for the normal curve which is said to be shaped like a bell

that their behavior & cognitive skills exist at an earlier developmental stage than the skills of others who are the same chronological age

about 2% of the population falling on the upper end of the normal curve & typically possessing an IQ of 130 or above