PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Normal Distribution, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
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Judge the likelihood of things in terms of how well they match the prototype. Judge the likelihood of events in terms of their availability in memory. Believe the cause is what you hear most. Decision is affected by the way an issue is presented. Tendency to use a word in too broad of sense. Tendency to use a word in too narrow of a sense. Example: doesn"t recognize real ducks even though they have a rubber ducky. Born with inborn capacity to learn language. Language development and cognitive development go hand in hand. Goal: identify children who might have trouble in school. Display the mental ability of someone of that chronological age. Have a standardization (comparison) group to which scores can be compared. Scores on test correlate with scores on other well established tests. Test measures what it is supposed to measure. 95% of all scores fall between 70 and 130. Extremes = below 70 and above 130.
