Describe Possible Reasons Why Standardized Tests Such as the SAT

question 97

Essay

Describe possible reasons why standardized tests such as the SAT and GRE are not strong predictors of grades in college or graduate school.

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Definitions:

Unconditioned Responses

Automatic, innate reactions to a stimulus that occur without prior conditioning or learning.

Conditioned Stimuli

Previously neutral stimuli that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, elicit a conditioned response in classical conditioning.

Unconditioned Stimuli

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally triggers an automatic response without prior learning.

Higher-Order Conditioning

A conditioning process where a stimulus that's associated with a conditioned stimulus also becomes a conditioned stimulus itself.