Week 16

Question 1

Intelligence

Answer 1

• An individual’s cognitive capability
• the ability to acquire, process, recall and apply information

Question 1

G

Answer 1

• Short for “general factor” and is often synonymous with intelligence
• capability for comprehending our surroundings

Question 2

IQ

Answer 2

• Short for “intelligence quotient.”
• a score, typically obtained from a widely used measure of intelligence that is meant to rank a person’s intellectual ability against that of others

Question 3

Norm

Answer 3

Assessments are given to a representative sample of a population to determine the range of scores for that population

Question 4

standardzie

Answer 4

• Assessments that are given in the exact same manner to all people
• standardized scores are individual scores that are computed to be referenced against normative scores for a population

Question 5

stereotype threat

Answer 5

The phenomenon in which people are concerned that they will conform to a stereotype or that their performance does conform to that stereotype

Question 6

satisfaction

Answer 6

Correspondence between an individual’s needs or preferences and the rewards offered by the environment

Question 7

satisfactoriness

Answer 7

Correspondence between an individual’s abilities and the ability requirements of the environment

Question 8

specific abilities

Answer 8

• Cognitive abilities that contain an appreciable component of g or general ability
• content focused talent

Question 9

anchoring

Answer 9

basing decisions off biases

Question 10

biases

Answer 10

• factors that influence judgement

Question 11

bounded awareness

Answer 11

when we fail to notice obvious and important information that is available to us.

Question 12

bounded ethicality

Answer 12

The systematic ways in which our ethics are limited in ways we are not even aware of ourselves.

Question 13

bounded rationality

Answer 13

suggests that humans try to make rational decisions but are bounded due to cognitive limitations.

Question 14

bounded self interest

Answer 14

The systematic and predictable ways in which we care about the outcomes of others.

Question 15

bounded willpower

Answer 15

The tendency to place greater weight on present concerns rather than future concerns.

Question 16

framing

Answer 16

The bias affected by the way in which information is presented, while holding the objective information constant.

Question 17

Heuristics

Answer 17

cognitive (or thinking) strategies that simplify decision making by using mental short-cuts

Question 18

system 1

Answer 18

• intuitive decision making
• fast, automatic, effortless decisions

Question 19

system 2

Answer 19

• slower, conscious, and logical decisions