Thinking
Insights
Ability to control and evaluate emotions
Emotional Intelligence
Access information without being cued
Recall
Pairings of sounds to form words
Morphemes
Confirming you're right
Confirmation Bias
Step by step procedures to solve something
Algorithim
Ability to reason and think flexibly
Fluid intelligence
Information you don't have to think about
Implicit Memory
Smallest meaningful unit of sound
Phonemes
Living in a world where you are unable to listen to others
Belief Perserverance
Narrows available problem solutions to determine the best answer
Convergant Thinking
Accumulation of knowlege
Crystallized Intelligence
Sensory memory used by sense of touch
Haptic Memory
Childhood seems to represent a critical period for mastering certain aspects of language
Chronical periods for learning
Process of presenting an issue or question
Framing
Educated guess based on past experiences
Heuristics
Types of intelligence are better viewed as individual talents
Robert S. Triarchy theory of Intelligence
Process where our brains convert short-term memories into long term ones
Memory Consolidation
Language determines the way we think
Linguistic Determinism
Tendancy people have to view events as more predictable than they really are
Hindsight bias
Mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, rememebering, and communicating.
Cognative Psychology
Person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill
Savant Syndrome
Newer memories interfere with the retrieval of older memories
Retroactive interference
All humans are born with the ability to learn a language
Naom Chomsky, inborn universal grammar
Tendancy to view problems in one way
Functial Fixedness