Sunday, November 21, 2010

What was the first intelligence test developed for children called?

Lizette

Which of the three contemporary theories has been the most recent and what are some of its components?
Some people have excellent coordination in sports and dance. What group of  intelligence would these people fall under?

Friday, November 19, 2010

What makes an intelligence test reliable?

Mariela Guido

How can you distinguish Gardner's theory from Sternberg's triarchic theory?

Karina González

Provide a mnemonic device for remembering Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intellegence. How does this help you remember this intellegence theory?

Maria Cruz

What are the three intelligences that make up Triarchic theory of intelligence? and Explain each one.

AnaV

What determines intelligence is Heredity and Environment, but which one is more important and why?

Nathaniel Distancia

Fluid Intelligence and Crystallized Intelligence are part of who's theory?and give an example of both intelligence .

Kristina Bravo

Is Triarchic Theory an old one or a new one ?

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Determine what mental retardation is??

Thalia

What's the difference between analytical intelligence and practical intelligence?

Valerie Martinez

Triarchic Theory. Who's theory does this belong to? What are the components?
what are the components of Goldman's theory? What is his theory?

what is the difference between Gardners theory and Thurtsone's theory?

ALEX GARCIA

How would be a good way to memorize the Goleman theory?

Oliver

What is another theory that could be more accepted other than Gardener's Theory?
What are the 6 theories involving intelligence?
After determining a person's mental age, dividing it by her chronological age, and multiplying by 100, what will you know?
What are the 8 distinct abilities that make up Gardner's Theory of Multiple intelligence?

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Jacky Rosas

What is R. B. Cattell's theory of intelligence? :)

Mike Wamungu

In what way does L.L Thurstone disagree with Charles Spearman?

Jennifer Camacho

What is Goleman's theory of emotional intelligence and the five characteristics that contribute to his theory? :)

Selene Rangel

Why do you think Gardner's theory of intelligence is the most accepted or recognized?

darline

Who invented the theory of multiple intelligences?

darline

What two contemporary theories are most infuential?

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

jackie alcala

What two people created the first intelligence test?
According to Robert Sternberg theory, intelligence consists of three overarching aspects: what are they?

stephanie vargas:)

What were the group tests,performance tests and the culture-fair tests??:)

Diego Escobar

what is the relationship between creativity and intelligence?

Monday, November 15, 2010

Who was Charles Spearman and what was his theory of intelligence? Also, who disagree with his theory?

Friday, November 12, 2010

Compare and Contrast Means-Ends Analysis and Hill Climbing?

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Marvie L

What is working backward? Give an example

Lizette Rosales

Which heuristic is it when you have a certain perception about a new situation because it resembles a past situation?

Nathaniel Distancia

In heuristics, what is hill climbing ? Give an example.

Abraham Nolasco

when we speak a particular language does it affect the way we look at things?

YADIRA JIMENEZ :))

When Spettle and Liebert studied decision making among operators at nuclear power plants , what did they find about decision making?

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Otoniel Montes

What is brainstorming and give an example of what brainstorming is?

Otoniel Montes

In heuristics, how and why do we create subgoals?

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

What does framing mean? If possible, give an example!!!

Adriana Gonzalez

What do you call when humans often try to find a reason for why an accident happens? even if it means blaming themselves to justify it?

Karina González

What is it called when we burst out saying "Ooohh!I knew that!!!"? Define this in your own words. Do you find this happening to you often? haha I know I find myself doing it all the time. =]

Richard Tomimbang

What is counterfactual thinking? And give a real life example

Monday, November 8, 2010

Ana Velazquez

Compare and contrast hindsight bias and counterfactual thinking.
What is confirmation bias? Give an example

Dominga Xirum

What is the compensatory model? Give an example.

question of the week

what is representativeness heuristic ?

-melanie

Mariela Guido

How can differentiate mental set and functional fixedness?

Manuel Z.

what is the definition of availability? Give a real life example of availability that is not from the textbook.

Christina Barbosa

why is it that framng has such a huge effect on the way people make their decision?

Brenda Salvador

What are some obstacles of problem solving and how can mental sets be minimized?

Friday, November 5, 2010

Nailen

What are some strategies that can be used when solving a problem?

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Maria Lopez

Compare and contrast phonemes and morphemes.
How can heuristics be used in a problem solving process?
what are the differences between "field dependent" and "field independent"?
what is the process of working backwards called?

Sandra Vasquez

What aspects of society contribute to this sense of Male Dominated language?

Valerie Martinez

what are the basic building blocks of thought? how do they relate to eachother?

Selene Rangel

When little kids learn a language, the can hear the difference between "Donate the book" and "Give the book." To them, "giving a book" sounds natural and "donating a book" sounds odd. Why is this, if children are accostumed to hear various sentence structures, and they are not corrected when speaking ungramatically?

Beatriz

Determine what telegraaphic speech is???

stephanie vargas

what are porphemes and what are they used for in language?:)

Edwin Carillo

List and explain the differences between a prototype and a category.

Nubia Picazo

What kind of processing does speaking require? Why?

Jessica Enriquez

What process would you be using if you are trying to solve a long division problem?

Mike Wamungu

What are algorithms?

Oliver Politron

What could you do to create something from short term memory to long term memory?

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Thursday, October 21, 2010

jackie alcala

You can think of the Episodic memories as diaries or daily journals bacause...?

Lizette Rosales

What are the different types of long term memory? Which are explicit or implicit?

Karina González

What is the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon? does it occur to you often? It does to me.lol

Sunday, October 17, 2010

what did George Sperling's experiment demonstrate?

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Gaby P.

What makes Operant Conditioning a voluntary process?

jackie alcala

explain superstitious behavior & give an example from your own life.. a supserstitious behavior youve experienced.

Jacky Rosas

how is operant conditioning selective?
:)

Lizette Rosales

What is the difference between observational learning and the social learning theory?

Jeanette Rocha.

What are some things that need to be followed in order for punishment to be effective?
:)

Maria Cruz

What is social learning theory?

Karina González

What are Sensory Registers? Which 2 are the most that have been extensively studied?

Ana Velazquez

What is long-term memory and where is it stored?
What does fixed-ratio schedule mean?

Otoniel Montes

What are the four schedules of reinforcement?

Yadira Jimenez

Give an example of latent learning?

Monday, October 11, 2010

Friday, October 8, 2010

Alex

Explain instrumental conditioning?

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Veronica Mandujano

  • What did Mary Cover Jones demonstrate using 3 year old Peter?
  • What was the US, UR, CS & CR?

Jeanette Gallaga

Explain the desentiziation therapy process and provide an example.

Maria Lopez

in the "little albert" experiment what was the US, UR, CS, CR? 

kassie fernandez

who noted that people cannot be both fearful and relaxed at the same time?

Brenda Salvador

What are the two types of reinforcement?

Adriana Gonzalez

what are the differences between clasical conditioning and instrumental conditioning?
what is the technique that is used in order to reverse the effects of someone who has been a victim of conditioned learning?

Mariela Guido

What can be a way to condition dogs that don't control themselves in the streets?
what is taste aversion??

stephanie vargas

what is preparedness and what is the contrapreparedness stimuli??

Leah Thoeni

what is learning and what is conditioning and how are they similar to each other ?

Ana Flores

Can conditioning affect the immune system??? and if so give an example where it has been proven to affect the immune sytem

Marvie Laranjo

What are the four basic elements for classical conditioning?

Nailen Velasquez

Explain what classical conditioning is.

Selene Rangel

What is the difference between a unconditioned response and a conditioned response?
is punishment an effective way to treat behavior?

Eddie Meza

What's the difference between conditioning, observational learning and cognitive learning?

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Jeanette Rocha.

How and what for is desensitization therapy used for?
:)

Valerie Martinez

What is classical conditioning and who discovered it?

Diego Escobar

what is the difference between latent learning and obsevational learning?

Nathaniel Distancia

Maria has chosen a complex piece for her piano recital. Several months ago, when the piece was new to her, she had to follow the sheet music closely, and she made numerous mistakes. But at the recital, she plays the same piece flawlessly from memory. This is an example of...?

Manuel Zarazua

what is the difference between Variable-interval schedule and Variable-ratio schedule?

Oliver Politron

Could fear and anxiety be treated the same way as conditioning?

Maria Cruz

Who proposed the law of effect:Behavior that brings about a satisfying effect is likely to be performed again, whereas behavior that brings about a negative effect is likely to be suppressed?

Manuel Negrete

What is a conditioned stimuli compared to a unconditioned stimuli?

Jacky Rosas

What are the types of cognitive learning?

Sonia Roman

Hello Everyone!

Here is my question:

Mr. V used to chew tobacco, and was addicted, so when he tried to quit for the tenth time he suffered from something. What is that something called?

Tobacco is a stimulant containing nicotine, which affects three neurotransmitters. What neurotransmitters does it affect?

Thank you!
Be happy!

Karina González

What are the two essential elements in operant conditioning?

Sandra Vasquez

Define learning in the context of psychology.
What is the difference between unconditioned stimulus and conditioned stimulus?

Otoniel Montes

What is an example of classical conditioning and conditioned response?

Gaby P.

What is used to classify something as an conditional stimulus?

Richard Tomimbang

What are examples of reinforcement in everyday life?

hey!!!

Karla Romero

what is the difference on a fixed-interval schedule && a fixed-ratio schedule?

whoo!!

so i figured out my username && password=)
now i dont have to create one!yay

Yadira Jimenez

What did Pavlov do to come up with the classical conditioning?In other words what was his experiment?

Abraham Nolasco

How does operant conditioning work opposed to classical?

KRISTINA BRAVO

DO HUMAN BEINGS ALSO LEARN BEHAVIORS THROUGH CLASSICAL CONDITIONING ?

Darline Ochoa

what does classical conditioning involve?

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Jennifer Camacho

What is the difference between learning and conditioning? :)

Michelle

Based on what you've read so far...
What is the difference and similarity between Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning?

Ana Velazquez

What is operant conditioning and what are its elements?

Jackie Alcala

Ivan Pavlov taught dogs to do what in his experiment dealing with salivation ?
Learning is mainly the acquisition of?

Johnny Alonzo

What are the four basic elements of classical conditioning?

Lizette Rosales

Which psychologist discovered classical conditioning?

Yesenia L.

What is cognitive learning?

Delia Betancourt

This is where your questions goes.

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Mr. Voigtschild's Example Post

Explain the major differences between classical conditioning and operant conditioning.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Answer to Edwin C's Answer

your answer is correct!
we rely on the sense of vision and hearing mainly to gather information about our environment and i guess that would explain why you mentioned our ancestors. only that these senses dominate the human consciousness.

Friday, September 24, 2010

Answer to Ricardo Ruelas's question:

The purpose of rods is to be responsible for night vision and perception of brightness. Cones are just responsible for color vision.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

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Thursday, August 19, 2010

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