Cognition
THinking; encomasses the processes associated with perception, knowledge, problem solving, judgment, language, and memory.
What is cognition?
A communication system that involves words and systematic rules to organize words to transmit information.
What is language?
The ability to generate, create, or discover new ideas, solutions, and possibilities.
What is creativity?
Describes a score earned on a test to measure intelligence.
What is IQ (intelligent quotient)?
This strategy is continuing to try different solutions until the problem is solved.
What is trial and error?
Categories of linguistic information, images, ideas, or memories.
What are concepts?
The words of a language.
What is lexicon?
The ability to come up with unique, multiple solutions to a given situation; thinking "outside the box."
What is divergent thinking?
An intelligence test is administered, scored, and interpreted consistently.
What is standardized?
A step-by-step problem solving formula.
What is algorithm?
The best example or representation of a concept.
What is a prototype?
A basic sound unit such as "ah" or "eh".
What is phoneme?
The ability to provide the correct or well-established answer to a problem.
What is convergent thinking?
When a test is administered to a large population in order to collect data from many comparing groups.
What is norming?
General problem solving framework; includes shortcuts, rule of thumb.
What is a heuristic?
A mental construct consisting of a collection of concepts.
What is a schema?
The way words are organized into sentences.
What is syntax?
Robert Sternberg developed a theory where part of it describes creative intelligence as inventing or imagining a solution to a problem.
What is the triarchic theory?
The results of an intelligence test follow this when graphed out.
What is a bell curve?
Solving a problem by focusing on the end result.
One type of schema is where we make assumptions about how individuals of a certain role behave. Another describes a set of behaviors that feel like routines.
What are role and event schemas (respectively)?
The set of rules that are used to convey meaning through the use of the lexicon.
What is grammar?
Raymond Cattell developed a theory that described intelligence in 2 categories; one of these is the ability to memorize and retrieve acquired knowledge.
What is crystallized intelligence?
A unique response to the environment based on genetic makeup.
What is range of reaction?
Persisting on approaching a problem in a way that has worked in the past, but clearly is not currently working.
What is a mental set?