Thinking
Narrowing down available problem solutions to determine the single best solution?
What is Convergent thinking
What problem solving is step-by-step procedure which guarantees a solution to a particular problem?
What is Algorithm
A sudden realization of a problem' solution, contrasts with strategy-based solutions is...?
What is Insight
Our spoken, written, or signed words and the way we combine them to communicate meaning is...?
What is Language
What is a way to think without language?
What is images and/or implicit memory
The process by which people generate/ evaluate arguments and reach conclusions about them is...?
What is Reasoning
A high order of cognitive process, requiring control of fundamental skills is...?
What is Problem solving
Continuously checking where you are in relation to a goal and the deciding how to get closer to the goal is...?
What is Means-end analysis
Bat broken into b...a...t is an example of what language structure?
What is Phonemes
In a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning is...?
What is a Morpheme
When you last drove in the snow, your car slipped off the road, so in general snow makes the road slippery is an example of what reasoning?
What is Inductive reasoning
A way in which an issue is posed, wording can affect decisions and judgments is...?
What is Framing
Estimated likelihood of events in terms of how well they seem to match prototypes is...?
What is Representativeness heuristic
What is the languages set of rules for deriving meaning from its sound?
What is Semantics
What area of the brain helps control language expression?
What is the Broca's area
What type of grouping is it when you group all dog breed together?
What is Concepts
What are algorithms, heuristics, insight, mean-ends analysis, and analogies?
What are problem solving strategies
When you are in need of a paperweight, and you fail to realize a rock or stapler can be substituted is an example of...?
What is Fixation
What is the order of the language development stages?
What is the babbling stage, one-word stage, two-word stage, and the telegraphic stage
What area of the brain is affected by aphasia causing people to be unable to understand others words and they would only be able to speak meaningless sentences?
What is the Wernicke's area
What are the components to creativity? (must list at least 3)
What is expertise, imaginative thinking, venturesome personality, intrinsic motivation, creative enviornment
DAILY DOUBLE
What is overconfidence?
What is the tendency to be more confident that correct (we can overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs)
Believing that a tomato is a vegetable and not a fruit is an example of what obstacle to problem solving?
What is Anchoring bias
What is the Chomsky language theory
The strong form of Whorf's hypothesis- that language controls the way we think and interpret the world around us is...?
What is Linguistic determinism