Thinking + Problem Solving
What is a Prototype?
Something that serves as a reference point or representation of an object or category (example: Birds- wings, feathers, beak, etc.)
What is Crystallized Intelligence?
Intelligence rooted in knowledge/facts/comprehension
process of implanting information into your memory
What is Encoding?
What is Memory Span?
The number of items you can keep in your short term memory (7)
Spoken, written, or signed words that can be combined to create meaning
A general though process based on previous experience or knowledge
What are Heuristics?
Series of tests designed to assess mental abilities
What is the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale?
it is easier to recall 1st and last positions than the middle
What is the Serial Position Effect?
What is Memory Reconstruction?
Memories that add details that were not originally apart of the actual event
Smallest meaningful unit of sound in a language
What is a Phoneme?
What is Functional Fixedness?
The tendency to view a problem in only one set way
If you score highly on one test than you're more likely to score highly on others
What is General Intelligence? (Charles Spearman)
Splitting Processes of info to combine them into categories so its easier to remember
What is Chunking?
Process in which brain converts short-term memories into long ones
What is Memory Consolidation?
The idea that language determines the way we think
What is Linguistic Determinism "Language & Thought"?
What is Framing?
The way a problem is presented and how the presentation can change how you think of something
What is the Flynn Effect? (James Flynn)
The trend that there is an increase in intelligence over time
What is the Atkinson-Shiffrin Three-Stage Model of Memory?
Sensory memory --> Short Term memory --> Long Term memory
What is Trace Decay Theory?
The idea that memories over time
Inborn Universal Grammar
The idea that you are born with the ability to learn language
The tendency to rely on the first piece of information you learn about a subject
What is an Anchoring Bias?
What is Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences?
8 different types of intelligence based on skills and intelligence (Visual-spatial, Linguistic-verbal, Logical-mathematical, Body-kinesthetic, Musical, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Naturalistic)
What is the Fergus Craik & Robert Lockhart's Levels of Processing Model?
Ways to make things more memorable (Structural/Phonemic/Semantic)
What is the Method of Loci?
A mnemonic technique that works by placing a
What is Skinner's Theory of Language Acquisition?
The idea that children learn language through operant conditioning