Thinking
A systematic procedure for solving a problem that always works correctly when it is correctly applied.
What is an algorhithm?
The mental activity involved in understanding, processing, and communicating information.
What is language?
The genetic tendency to develop language.
What is nature?
A general mental capability that involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly, and learn from experience.
What is intelligence?
Adoptee studes show that adopted children have IQs like that correlate to these people.
Who are biological parents?
A mental category that is used to class together objects or ideas that have common properties.
What is a concept?
The way in which wording effects decisions making.
What is the framing effect?
The environemental effects on language development.
What is nurture?
A general mental capability that involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly, and learn from experience.
What is creativity?
A ratio obtained by dividing a child's score on an intelligence test by their chronological age.
What is intelligence quotient (IQ)?
Rules of thumb that help us simplify and solve problems.
What are heuristics?
What is the representativeness heuristic?
What is a holophrase?
The tendency to try to solve a problem by using an approach that has worked before.
What is mental set?
Psychologist known for thinking that intelligence increases with age.
Whos is Alfred Binet?
A sudden perception of relationships among elements of a mentally represented problem that permits its solution.
What is insight?
A specfic example of a concept.
What is a prototype?
Crying, cooing, and babbling.
What are prelinguistic vocalizations?
Psychologist who thought that intelligence was made up of two main factors, "g" and "s."
Percentage of people who take the Weshler test and score between 90 and 110.
What is arriving at the solution of a problem when
we have not been consiously working on
the problem?
What is the incubation effect?
The
way in which words are arranged to
make phrases and sentences.
What is syntax?
Young children often incorrectly use words that they had correctly used before.
What is overregularization?
Who is Robert Sternberg?
The distribution of IQ scores on a graph has this shape.
What is a bell-shaped curve or normal distribution?