PSY 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Motivation, Lateral Hypothalamus

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Psy 1010 study guide (outline) for test 3: memory, infantile amnesia, encoding. Linking it to your life: serial position effect, primacy effect, recency effect, chunking, concept maps, long-term memory. Retrieval cues: encoding specificity principle, context-dependent memory, state-dependent memory. Why do we forget: encoding failure, decay, motivation, amnesia. Interference: retrograde, anterograde, prospective vs. retrospective memory, language, organizational rules. Pragmatics: infinite generativity, how language develops. Gestures: first word at what age, receptive vs. expressive (spoken language, telegraphic speech, child-directed speech, expanding, labeling. Intelligence: test-retest reliability, content validity, construct validity, normal distribution of iq. Iq formula: wechsler adult intelligence scale, spearman, thurstone, sternberg, gardner, intellectual disability prevalence, categories, and percentages. Organic vs. cultural familial: giftedness 3 ring conception, heritability of intelligence, motivation, drive theory. Homeostasis: incentive theory, intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation, biological and social motives, humanistic view of motivation. Self-determination theory: hunger as an example. Environmental factors: food cues, others/friends, culture, stress. Expressive behaviors: body language, facial expressions.