Cognition
Visual Perception
Attention
Memory
Math
100
A cognitive process which refers to our initial interpretations of the sensation.
What is perception?
100
Perception that involve an apparent discrepancy between how and object looks and what it actually is.
What are optical illusions?
100
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
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
A method used to determine if one stimulus affects another.
What is priming?
200
This theory suggests that we interpret vertical lines as horizontal lines extending into the distance.
What is front-horizontal foreshortening theory
200
The process in which individuals adjust their memory for something after they find out the true outcome.
What is Hindsight Bias?
200
The idea that gender differences are related to cultural variations in opportunity structures for girls and women.
What is gender stratification hypothesis?
300
A cognitive process that refers to the focusing of our limited capacities of consciousness on a particular set of stimuli.
What is attention?
300
One of the best known illussion where to most people, the upper line appears longer, although both lines are the same length.
What is the Ponzo illussion?
300
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
A spot with no sensory receptors.
What is blind spot?
400
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?
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
A cognitive process that refers to feelings that result from excitation of the sensory receptors such as touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing.
What is sensation?
500
A theory that suggests that people in Western cultures focus more on representation on paper than do people in other cultures.
What is symbolizing three dimensions in two?
500
With the use respondents in 24 cultures were asked "the most important events in world history. These results indicated that collective remembering of the past is dynamically interlinked to political issues of the present for all cultures surveyed. Who was the most influential person according the results.
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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