Cognition
Visual Perception
Attention
Memory
Math
100
This is a method used to determine if one stimulus affects another.
What is priming?
100
Perceptions that involve an apparent discrepancy between how an object looks and what it actually is.
What is perception?
100
This is the focusing of our limited capacities of consciousness on a particular set of stimuli, more of whose features are noted and process in more depth than is true of non-focal stimuli.
What is attention?
100
This effect suggests that we remember things better if they are either the first or last item in a list of things to remember.
What is serial position effect?
100
This is an area of study that examines cognitive skills and abilities that are used in everyday functioning that appear to develop without formal education, but from performing daily tasks of living and working.
What is everyday cognition?
200
This is a cognitive process that refers to the focusing of our limited capacities of consciousness on a particular set of stimuli.
What is attention?
200
This is a theory which suggests that people are used to seeing things that are rectangular in shape and unconsciously come to expect things to have squared corners.
What is carpentered world theory?
200
The work from researchers Masuda and Nisbett (2001) resulted in the Japanese seeing more of this in the picture.
What are background objects?
200
This is the process in which individuals adjust their memory for something after they find out the true outcome.
What is hindsight bias?
200
This is the idea that gender differences are related to cultural variations in opportunity structures for girls and women.
What is gender stratification hypothesis?
300
This is the process of gathering information about the world through our senses; our initial interpretations of sensations.
What is perception?
300
This theory suggests that we interpret vertical lines as horizontal lines extending into the distance.
What is front-horizontal foreshortening theory?
300
The study of observance by Masuda and colleagues (2008) showed pictures of groups with a central figure and each individual had either congruent or incongruent faces; this culture of observers out of the two focused more on the individual rather than the group.
What is American?
300
This is the recollection of specific events that took place at a particular time and place in the past.
What is episodic memory?
300
According to a study by Dehaene, Izard, Pica, and Spelke (2006) even isolated indigenous groups of individuals living where use geometric concepts to locate hidden objects.
What is the Amazon?
400
These are the feelings that result from excitation of the sensory receptors such as touch, taste, smell, sight, or hearing.
What is sensation?
400
This theory suggests that people in Western cultures focus more on representations on paper than do people in other cultures.
What is symbolizing three dimensions in two?
400
In this study of attention, (Masuda and Nisbett 2001) these two cultures were measured on remembrance of a photo with fish and a background.
What are Japanese and American cultures?
400
This study suggests that memory and abilities tend to decrease as one gets older.
What is Crook, Youngjohn, Larrabee & Salama (1992)?
400
In their survey of 2007, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement found that at this grade, the differences in achievement between boys and girls in both mathematics and science were negligible in approximately half the countries surveyed.
What is the fourth grade?
500
He likened culture to "mental programming."
Who is Hofstede ? (1980)
500
This is one of the best known illusions where to most people, the upper line appears longer, although both lines are the same length.
What is the Ponzo illusion?
500
By focusing on a salient object or person, this culture tends to engage in context-independent and analytic perceptual process.
What is Western culture?
500
Respondents in 24 cultures were asked to name "the most influential person in world history in the last 1,000 years." These results indicated that collective remembering of the past is dynamically interlinked to political issues of the present for all cultures surveyed. This dictator's name was often stated.
Who is Hitler?
500
Else-Quest, Hyde, and Linn (2010) found that gender equity in these three areas were the most powerful predictors of cross-national variability in gender gaps in math.
What are school enrollment, women's share of research jobs, and women's parliamentary representation?
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