Cognition
Language
Intelligence
Social Functioning
Love
100
This is a term used to describe the process of taking apart (the brain) to learn how it works.
What is reverse engineering?
100
Englis contains between 40 and 45 categories of sounds, or _________.
What are phonemes?
100
According to Spearman, someone's intelligence is dependent not only on his or her general intelligence, or g, but also on his or her _________ __________, or ___.
What are specific abilities or "s"?
100
These fire not only when an action is selected and performed, but also when that action is passively viewed while being performed by another organism.
What are mirror neurons?
100
This is the cognitive bias in which an observer's overall impression of a person, company, brand, or product influences the observer's feelings and thoughts about that entity's character or properties.
What is the halo effect?
200
Our brains work following a construct known as _________ _________, or using heuristics to help us imposing order on the world and process enormous amounts of information.
What is cognitive economy?
200
Infants and toddlers produce words (before/at the same time as/after) they begin to comprehend them.
What is after?
200
When you're driving a vehicle you've never driven, you're relying on your capacity for _________ _________, but when you answer a question on a history test, you're relying on your capacity for _________ _________.
What are fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence?
200
These are mental structures that organize our knowledge about the social world.
What are schemas?
200
Love at first sight is most often referred to as this type of love.
What is eros?
300
This is a term used to describe the notion that our minds are inseparable from our bodies and the world.
What is grounded cognition or embodiment?
300
List the four levels of analysis that make up language.
What are (1) phonemes, (2) morphemes, (3) syntax, and (4) extralinguistic information?
300
Three criteria define mental retardation (now known as intellectual disability according to the DSM 5): (1) onset prior to adulthood, (2) IQ below approximately _____, and (3) inadequate adaptive functioning.
What is 70?
300
When we practice not seeing and not recognizing our own automatic biases, we practice ________ ________?
What is naive realism?
300
Putting one's lover above oneself is known as this type of love.
What is agape?
400
Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences helps to explain what psychologically unique group of people?
What are savants?
400
Broca's area is involved in the _________ of speech, whereas Wernicke's area is involved in the _________ of speech.
What are production and comprehension?
400
The results of Lewis Terman's classic studies of intellectually gifted individuals disputed the popular notion that there's an intimate link between genius and _______.
What is madness?
400
These are simple rules for making complex decisions or drawing inferences in a seemingly effortless manner.
What are heuristics?
400
Sternberg's Triarchic Model of love involves what three constructs?
What are intimacy, passion, and commitment?
500
DAILY DOUBLE: What is the Turing Test?
The Turing Test is used to refer to a proposal made by Turing (1950) as a way of dealing with the question whether machines can think. The test asks whether an observer who has a conversation with a computer and a human figure out which conversationalist is the computer. The computer passes the Turing Test if the person cannot judge which is human and which is the computer.
500
DAILY DOUBLE: What was Nim Chimpsky, and what did he teach us?
What is a chimpanzee raised by humans? Nim Chimpsky (named after Noam Chomsky) was raised by humans and taught sign language. While he learned 125 signs, the researchers decided that this could not be considered "language," since Nim could only repeat what he had seen humans perform and could not syntactically combine signs to convey meaning.
500
DAILY DOUBLE: Name 3 intelligence tests.
What are the Stanford-Binet IQ Test, WPPSI, WISC, and WAIS?
500
DAILY DOUBLE: What is the Implicit Association Test (IAT), and what research has it revealed?
The IAT is a measure commonly used within Social Psychology designed to detect the strength of a person's automatic association between mental representations of objects (concepts) in memory. This measure has been used to demonstrate biases in perception toward people (e.g., stereotypes), concepts, objects, and even oneself (e.g., self-esteem).
500
Describe Rosebaum's Repulsion Hypothesis and Smeaten's Proportion Hypothesis? Which of these is thought to be more valid?
The repulsion hypothesis states that we do not like others and separate ourselves from those who are not like us, whereas the proportion hypothesis suggests that the greater the proportion of attitudes we share with another person, the more we like them.
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