General ability (g factor)

Multiple abilities

Intelligence Quotient (IQ)

• Mental Age vs Chronological Age

Intelligence tests

• Standardization

• Validity

  • Constructive

  • Predictive

• Reliability

  • Test-retest

  • Split-half

• Stereotype Threat

• Stereotype Lift

• Flynn Effect

• Achievement Test

• Aptitude Test

Fixed mindset

Growth MindsetSensory Memory

Short Term Memory

Working Memory

Long Term Memory

Maintenance Rehearsal

Elaborative Rehearsal

Highly Superior autobiographical Memory

Retrograde Amnesia

Anterograde Amnesia

Alzheimer’s Disease

Infantile Amnesia

Retrieval

Retrieval Cues

• Context-dependent memory

• State-dependent memory

• Mood-congruent memory

• (Physical) State-dependent Memory

Testing Effect

Metacognition

Forgetting Curve

Interference

• Proactive Interference

• Retroactive interference

• Inadequate retrieval

  • Tip of the tongue phenomenon

Repression (psychodynamic theory)

Accuracy

• Misinformation effect

• Source Amnesia

• Constructive Memory

  • Memory consolidation

  • Imagination inflationPerception

  • Bottom up processing

  • Top-down processing

  • Affects Perception

    • Schemas

    • Perceptual sets 

    • Contexts

    • Experiences

    • Cultural

  • Organize perception

    • Gestalt Principles 

      • Closure

      • Figure and ground

      • Proximity

      • Similarity

  • Attention

    • Selective Attention

      • Cocktail Party Effect

      • Inattentional blindness

      • Change blindness

  • Depth Perception

    • Binocular Cues

      • Retinal Disparity

      • Convergence

    • Monocular Cues

      • Relative clarity

      • Relative size

      • Texture gradient

      • Linear perspective

      • Interposition

  • Visual Constancies

    • Size constancy

    • Shape Constancy

  • Apparent movement

    • Phi Phenomenon

    • Stroboscopic Movement

  
  

  2.2 Thinking, Problem Solving, Judgements, and Decision Making

  
  

  • 2.2.A Explain how psychological concepts and theories account for thinking, problem-solving, judgment, and decision-making

  
  

  • Cognition

  • Concepts

    • Prototypes

  • Schema

    • Assimilation

    • Accommodation

  • Algorithms

  • Heuristics

    • Representativeness heuristic

    • Availability heuristic

  • Influences on decision making

    • Mental Set

    • Priming

    • Framing

    • Sunk-cost fallacy

    • Gambler's fallacy

  • Executive Functions

  • Creativity

    • Convergent thinking

    • Divergent thinking

    • Functional fixedness

  
  
  

  2.3 Introduction to Memory

  
  

  • 2.3.A Explain how the types, structures, and processes of memory work. 

  
  

  • Memory

    • Explicit Memory

      • Episodic

      • Semantic 

    • Implicit Memory

      • Procedural Memory

    • Prospective Memory

  • Long Term Potentiation

  • Working Memory

    • Central Executive

    • Phonological Loop

    • Visuospatial Sketchpad

  • Multi-store model

    • Sensory memory

      • Iconic Memory

      • Echoic Memory

    • Short term memory

    • Long term memory

  • Automatic Processing

  • Effortful processing

  • Encoding

  • Storage

  • Retrieval

  • Levels of memory (shallow to deepest):

    • Structural

    • Phonemic

    • Semantic

  
  

  
  

  • 2.4.A Explain how different encoding processes work to get information into memory

  
  

  • Encoding

  • Mnemonic Devices

    • Method of Loci

  • Chunking

  • Spacing Effect

    • Massed practice

    • Distributed Practice

  • Serial Position Effect

    • Primacy Effect

    • Recency Effect