Chapter 10
The ease to which one can generate a visual image of a concept refers to the concept's ______________.
What is IMAGERY POTENTIAL?
The smallest unit of meaning in language.
What is a MORPHEME?
Various regions of the brain that are active while the mind wanders.
Selection of information that supports one's existing beliefs.
What is CONFIRMATION BIAS?
Memory strategies (e.g., Method of Loci or Pegword technique).
What are MNEMONICS?
Faster mental processing of words that we encounter often.
What is the WORD FREQUENCY EFFECT?
Continually thinking of an object in terms of its intended use.
The process of decision making.
What is REASONING?
What is DIVERGENT THINKING?
Special neurons in the visual cortex that are responsive when either perceiving or imagining an object.
What are IMAGERY NEURONS?
A lexically ambiguous word in which both of its meanings are equal in its likelihood of occurrence in language.
What is BALANCED DOMINANCE?
What is the THINK-ALOUD PROTOCOL?
Syllogisms that begin with ALL, SOME, or NONE.
What is a CATEGORICAL SYLLOGISM.
A researcher who discovered that participants mistake a dimly back-lit projection of on object as being an imagined one.
Who is PERKY?
A scientific method to infer cognitive processes through the measurement of reaction times is known as _________________.
A syntax based principle that helps with parsing.
What is the PRINCIPLE OF LATE CLOSURE?
Unconscious processing of a problem when one temporarily stops actively working on it.
What is INCUBATION?
Premises and a conclusion
What is a SYLLOGISM?
An approach to solve a reasoning problem that involves the construction of a mental representation.
What is the MENTAL MODEL APPROACH?
An attention disorder in which one half of the visual field is ignored.
What is UNILATERAL NEGLECT?
Vocabulary of a language
What is a LEXICON?
Newell and Simon proposed movement through the initial state, intermediate state, and goal state. All of which comprise what is referred to as the ______________ space.
What is the PROBLEM SPACE?
A study of decision making that encompasses psychology, neuroscience and economics.
What is NEUROECONOMICS?
An approach to parsing that suggests a reliance on various factors such as the word meaning, story context, syntax-based principles, scene context, and memory load and prior experience with language.
What is CONSTRAINT-BASED APPROACH to parsing?