The Cognitive Revolution in Psychology
The way information is processed and manipulated in remembering, thinking, and knowing.
What is cognition?
Manipulating information mentally by forming concepts, solving problems, making decisions, and reflecting in a critical or creative manner.
What is thinking?
What is intelligence?
______ is a form of communication- whether spoken, written, or signed- that is based on a system of symbols.
What is Language?
The tendency to search for and use information that supports your ideas rather than refute them is _______ _________.
Explains observable behavior by investigating mental processes and structures of the brain that we cannot directly observe.
What is Cognitive Psychology?
Reasoning from a general principle that we know to be true to a specific instance.
What is deductive reasoning?
Reliability refers to the stability of scores while _____ refers to the extent that the scores measure what they are intended to measure.
What is validity?
A language's sound system.
What is phonology?
Lazarus believed that primary appraisal involves our immediate reaction to an event while ____ _____ involves evaluating our resources and determining how to effectively use them to cope with an event.
What is secondary appraisal?
What is software?
What is inductive reasoning?
IQ= (MA/CA)* 100
The smallest unit of language that carries meaning.
What is morphology?
Kuhl believed that children from 0-6 months of age had this type of linguistics.
What is universal?
_________ is responsible for comparing the human mind to computer processing systems.
What is Herbert Simon?
Divergent thinking is many solutions to a problem as ______ is to a single best solution to a problem.
What is convergent thinking?
The theory of intelligence that includes analytical, creative, and practical intelligence.
What is the triarchic theory of intelligence?
Wernicke's area affects language comprehension whereas Broca's area affects ______ ______.
What is speech production?
Adult Intelligence Scale, Intelligence Scale for Children, and Pre-school and Primary Scale of Intelligence are all examples of _____ _______.
What is Wechsler Scales?
Cognitive psychology is a broad field that involves the study of ________, __________, ___________.
What is conciousness, memory, and cognitive neuroscience.
Individuals with a greater ability to recall antidepressant advertising estimate the prevalence of depression to be higher than those with low recall. This is an example of ______ _______.
What is availability heuristic?
_____ responsible for the concept of frames of mind which include verbal, mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalist, and existentialist.
What is Howard Gardner?
An American linguist that believed humans are pre-wired to learn a language at a specific time in a specific way.
What is Noam Chomsky?
The Maier string problem is an example of ______ ______.
What is functional fixedness?