All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
What is Cognition
100
In a language, the smallest distinctive sound unit
What is Phoneme
100
The tendency to be more confident than correct--to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments.
What is Overconfidence
100
The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas.
What is Creativity
100
The ability to perceive, understands, manage, and use emotions.
What is Emotional intelligence
200
The way an issue is posed; how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgments.
What is Framing
200
Impairment of language, usually caused by left-hemisphere damage either to Broca's area (impairing speaking) or to Wernicke's area (impairing understanding)
What is Aphasia
200
A mental image or best example of a category.
What is Prototype
200
Our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age.
What is Crystallized intelligence
200
A condition of mild to severe intellectual disability and associated physical disorders caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21.
What is Down syndrome
300
A tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past
What is Mental set
300
In a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others. In a given language, semantics is the set of rules for deriving meaning from sounds, and syntax is the set of rules for combining words into sensible sentences.
What is Grammar
300
An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning.
What is Intuition
300
Our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood.
What is Fluid intelligence
300
A condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing.
What is Savant syndrome
400
A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error-prone than algorithms.
What is Heuristic
400
Beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language.
What is Babbling stage
400
Clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited.
What is Belief perseverance
400
A self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype
What is Stereotype threat
400
The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to.
What is Validity
500
What is a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem? Contrasts with the usually speedier-but also more error prone- use of heuristics.
What is Algorithm
500
When does the one-word stage occur in infants?
1-2 years old
500
What is the equation to find IQ?
MA/CA * 100
500
The extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, or on retesting.
What is Reliability
500
The widely used American revision (by Terman at Stanford University) of Binet's original intelligence test.