Thinking, Concepts, and Creativity
Infancy and Childhood Development
Memory Storage and Retrieval
Adulthood Development
Miscellaneous
100
A production of valuable and novel ideas.
What is creativity?
100
When kids separate and organize things into male and female roles/categories.
What is gender schema?
100
The ability to organize and manage meaningful info where it can be coded, stored, and retrieved easily.
What is chunking?
100
A transition from childhood to adulthood that begins during sexual maturation to independence.
What is adolescence?
100
John thinks his sense of direction is much better than it actually is. Being the map guide, John led his group the wrong direction refusing to ask for help. This is an example of _____.
What is overconfidence?
200
Use of creativity tests is how this type of thinking is done and injury to the left parietal lobe damages this ability.
What is convergent thinking?
200
An 18-month-old typically recognizes herself in a mirror. This self-awareness contributes to _____.
What is self concept?
200
Alex was 10 when the 9/11 attack occurred, now 16 years later, Alex can still strongly remember it. This shows which type of memory?
What is long term memory?
200
Timing of taking on adult roles is _____.
What is social age?
200
Jean Piaget's development of theory focused on this aspect of development.
What is cognition?
300
A baby's highchair, a rocking chair, a dentist's chair, and a reclining chair are examples of the ______ chair. (mental groupings of similar objects)
What is concept?
300
People's ideas about their own and other's mental states - about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and the behaviors these might predict. Here, Sally puts her toy in the red cabinet, while Anne switches the toy to the blue cabinet while Sally is away. Where will Sally search for her toy later?
What is a theory of mind?
300
Jamie had a school play approaching, through repetition, thinking, and verbalizing, Jamie was able to keep the information active in her memory. This shows _____.
What is rehearsal?
300
Stage of Piaget where people begin to reason abstractly.
What is formal operational stage?
300
Period which occurs during early childhood, when the brain is extremely flexible in adapting to new types of info. As more info is taken in, the brain becomes engulfed in certain types of processing, making it difficult to acquire new info.
What is critical periods?
400
The young girl compared a hairy creature with four legs and a tail to a prototypical dog, like a lab. This is best described by ______.
What is prototype?
400
The viewpoint on child thinking and learning where it's said, children who talk to themselves, out loud or inaudibly, help them to master skills and control emotion and behavior.
What is Lev Vygotsky's Scaffolding?
400
Stacy was playing a matching game with her family which involved her flipping over one card at a time hoping to match it with its pair. She briefly remembered where the matching cards were. This describes which level of memory does this show?
What is sensory memory, the first level of memory?
400
A debate over the relative influence of genetics and the environment on development if personality is an influence of the parent through genetics or learned traits from their environment.
What is the nature vs. nurture issue?
400
Tiana is playing with her little brother. She places a toy under a blanket, her brother knows it is there and can actively seek it. This is _____.
What is object permanence?
500
Robert Sternberg's five components of creativity.
What is expertise, imaginative thinking skills, a venturesome personality, intrinsic motivation, and a creative environment?
500
A method used by psychologists that study an infants depth perception. Those exposed to this refuse to cross over the glass to their mothers.
What is visual cliff?
500
Joe is employed as a physician and he displays his role in the hospital but behaves differently on vacation with his family. Observers expectations differ on the social situation which shows _____.
What is schema.
500
According to Erikson, this thing is a dominant goal of adulthood.
What is generativity?
500
Luke was taught that anything with four legs and a long tail is a dog. He sees a new type of dog that he's never seen before and he immediately points to the animal and says "dog."
What is assimilation?
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