MeThinks
Thinking about thinking
What is metacognition?
What is a prototype?
Focusing your consciousness on one particular stimulus.
What is selective attention?
A child's mental age divided by chronological age, multiplied by 100
What is the intelligence quotient?
This process helps us get information into memory
What is encoding?
When you use PEMDAS or a set of procedures to solve a problem.
What is Algorithim?
When you assume something is more likely because it matches your expectation/prototype
What is the representativeness heuristic?
Failure to notice visible differences when our attention is elsewhere.
What is inattentional blindness?
This is high when an IQ test measures what it was designed to measure
What is validity?
When the successful retrieval of a memory depends on the environment where the memory was encoded
What is a context-dependent memory?
Using a shoe to hammer a nail is an example of overcoming this
What is functional fixedness?
Explains why people might think they are more likely be in a plane crash than in a car accident
What is the availability heuristic?
A binocular cue that compares the images from both eyes.
What is retinal disparity?
Overall knowledge and verbal skills, increases with age
What is crystallized intelligence?
Occurs when you have better recall for items at the BEGINNING of a list
What is primacy effect?
Continuing to believe something after receiving evidence that disconfirms it
What is belief perseverance?
The framework that organizes and interprets experiences and information.
What are schemas?
Perceiving familiar objects as having the same color even though the illumination changes
What is color constancy?
Increased schooling and more demanding curricula are proposed explanations for this 100+ year trend of higher IQ scores
What is the Flynn effect?
Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon is an example of this
What is retrieval failure?
Example: After pushing open a door, you later continue to try to push open a door that needs to be pulled
What is a mental set?
The way an issue is posed can affect our judgments.
What is framing?
Looking at an image as a whole.
What is Gestalt?
Self-confirming concern that once will be evaluated based on a negative idea.
What is stereotype threat?
When you keep recalling your old phone number instead of your new phone number
What is proactive interference?