Communication
A set of rules in a language that help convey meaning of the words that are being used.
What is grammar?
Field of psychology that studies and examines how people think.
What is cognitive psychology?
The tendency to only focus on events or behaviors that support your prior beliefs, while ignoring the ones that don't support them.
What is confirmation bias?
The ability to create or discover solutions and new ideas
What is creativity?
A communication system that involves words and organization of these words to transmit information from one individual to another.
What is language?
Defined as a process that is associated with language, problem solving, memory and more. An example of this would be planning out your schedule for the week.
What is cognition?
Defined as a plan of action used to find a solution.
What is a problem solving strategy?
This is characterized as acquired knowledge and the ability to retrieve that knowledge.
What is crystalized intelligence?
Critical period or stage in life where it is easiest to acquire language
What is early childhood?
Groupings of information that are turned into big ideas. They also keep information in your brain organized and accessible.
What are concepts?
A problem solving strategy that involves trying multiple solutions until the problem is solved.
What is trial and error?
A common test that was used to measure intelligence.
What is an IQ test?
An example of this would be a child saying "drived" instead of "drove" when using the word drive in past tense.
What is overgeneralization?
The best representation of a concept. The first thing that comes to mind when you are asked to picture a general thing. (example: a car)
What is a prototype?
A problem solving formula that gives you step-by-step instructions that will lead you to your desired outcome. This is also a term used in coding.
What is an algorithm?
These are two characteristics that affect intelligence.
What are genetics and enviroment?
The hemisphere that is associated with language and is most affected by linguistic influences
What is the left hemisphere?
Knowing that when the leaves start to change color and turn orange, that it is autumn.
What is schema?
An example of this type of mental set would be thinking you can't open a bottle since you don't have a bottle opener. Although you had a lighter you could have used to open the bottle all along.
What is functional fixedness?
Charles Spearman, Raymond Cattell, and Robert Sternberg were all psychologist that had views and theories on this complex characteristic of cognition.
What is intelligence?