Funky brain
People tend to have more trouble reasoning with negative info, so witholding is not considered as bad, what is this effect
Ommision Bias
Tests require two things, what are they and why are they important
Reliability: consistency across instances of testing
Validity: the test is actually doing it's job a measuring what it said it would be
Gamblers fallacy is the false belief of what?
that a predicted outcome of an independent event depends on past outcomes
What does mood to our thinking
positive mood promotes a general assimilative thinking style
while negative mood promotes specific focused thinking style
What are the four features of insight
Suddenness, ease, positive, confidence
Why is generalizing important
Memory for solutions should include ‘essence’ and not specific details for generalization to occur- so we can have adaptive measures
The inability to see beyond the most common use of a particular object
Functional fixedness
What are the two forms of reasoning and what direction do they take from information
Inductive- From information
Deductive - to information
Syllogistic fallacy
incorrectly assessing syllogisms shows when we deviate from logical reasoning
Making comparisons between 2 situations and applying the solution from one to another is called ...
Analogical Problem Solving
What theory talks about fluid and crystallized intelligence
Cattell and Horn Theory
Experts spend more time doing what to a problem to help them solve it?
Define the problem, so they can focus only on the important details
What are the 3 things that remove emotion and in turn morality
High functioning autism, Positive emotion induction, ventromedial prefrontal lesions
What is stern berg's theory of intelligence
A process view that states that intelligence is not a system or structure
Name 2 types of intelligence tests
Weschler's, Raven's, Stanford-Binet, Simon-Binet