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Reasoning
100

When Yoda says "Afraid you will be" he is violating this rule of language

What is syntax? 

100

Tim looks up words he doesn't know in the dictionary when he encounters them while reading novels. This process increases Tim's _______

What is lexicon? 

100

This is the sudden realization of the solution to a problem

What is insight (or eureka/aha moment)?

100

Sarah thinks that Mustangs are really popular cars because she just bought one and now notices them everywhere. This is an example of which barrier to reasoning

What is the availability heuristic? 

200

 "The sidewalk was covered in ice. Ramona fell down." The kind of inference we use to link these two sentences is called 

What is a bridging inference? 

200

Readers with _____ working memory capacity for language make elaborative inferences during reading

What is high? 

200

What do Gestalt psychologists think you often need to do to a problem in order to solve it

What is restructure the problem? 

200

Believing that good things will happen to you if you are wearing your "lucky jacket" is an example of which kind of barrier to reasoning

What is illusory correlation? 

300

In an experiment in which participants were presented with individual words taken from their own conversations, they could identify _____ of the words spoken by their own voices

What is 50%? 

300

_____ coherence refers to the processing of the topic of a story/paragraph and takes place in the _____ hemisphere

What are global and right? 
300

The time between when you stop thinking about a problem and a solution comes to mind

What is incubation? 

300

Shiela is blonde, extremely attractive, and lives in an expensive condo.  We may tend to think she might be a model because of which barrier to effective reasoning

What is the representative heuristic? 

400

We take longer to read and process ____ frequency words compared to ____ frequency words. 

What are low and high? 

400

"The dog tried to jump over the fence.  He didn't make it."  The kind of inference used to connect these two sentences is called

What is anaphoric inference?

400

In the Tower of Hanoi problem, the _____ state involves having three discs stacked on the left peg, with the middle and right pegs empty

What is the initial state?

400

If a cop believes that young female drivers speed more than any other group, the police officer will likely notice young female drivers speeding but fail to notice other drivers doing the same thing. This is an example of which barrier to reasoning

What is confirmation bias? 

500

Brain imaging studies indicate that semantics and syntax are associated with these two lobes of the cerebral cortex

What are the temporal and frontal lobes? 

500

These are things that the N400 component of the ERP is sensitive to

What are semantic expectancy and math errors? 

500

Name the 4 variables that affect creativity

What are knowledge, personality, motivation, environment

500

This is when an individual's support for a viewpoint becomes even stronger when given facts opposing their view. 

What is the backfire effect? 

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