A mental category that groups objects, relations, activities, abstractions, or qulaities having common properties is called a...
What is a concept?
100
The drawing of conclusions or inferences from facts, observations, or assumptions is called....
What is reasoning?
100
A tendency to solve problems with procedures that have worked before...
What is a mental set?
100
What does WAIS mean?
What is Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale?
100
This thinking occurs outside of conscious awareness but is accessible to consciousness when necessary?
What is the subconscious process?
200
A unit of meaning that is made up of concepts & expresses a single idea is called a ...
What is a proposition?
200
A problem solving strategy that is guaranteed to produce a solution is called ....
What is an Algorithm?
200
The tendency to look for evidence or information that only support's your belief or idea...
What is confirmation bias?
200
The general ability assumed to underlie specific mental abilities and talents measured by intelligence tests is called the .....
What is the g factor?
200
Who is more likely to believe that mathematical ability is innate?
Asian or American parents?
What is American?
(beliefs about intelligence)
300
A representation that may occur in the sensory modals and resembles what it represents is a ...
What is a mental image?
300
"Rules of thumb" that suggests a course of action without guaranteeing an optimal solution is called....
What are heuristics?
300
The tendency to increase your liking for something that you have worked hard for or suffered to attain....
What is justification of effort???
300
The IQ gap between severely malnourished children and well-nourished children averages how many points....
What is about 20 points?
300
the mental inflexibility & obliviousness to the current context of one's environment that prevents individuals from recognizing when a change in a situation requires a change in behavior is called ...
What is mindlessness?
400
An integrated network, or mental representation, that includes associations, attitudes, and expectations are a
What is cognitive schema?
400
Informal reasoning involves this type of thinking...a process in which opposing facts or ideas (pros & cons) are weighed and viewed to determine the best solution...
What is dialectal reasoning?
400
The tendency to overestimate one's ability to have predicted event after the outcome is known....
What is hindsight bias?
400
Name two performance tasks of the WAIS?
What are picture completion; picture arrangement; block design; object assembly; digit symbol?
400
Formal problems can be solved with ____, informal problems call for a(n)______
What are algorithm; heuristic?
500
An especially representative example of a concept is called a...
What is a Prototype?
500
To acquire knowledge of a task without awareness or intention is referred to as ...
What is implicit learning?
500
The state when a person holds two beliefs, thoughts, or attitudes (cognition) that are inconsistent with his/her belief or behavior....
What is cognitive dissonance?
500
Define emtional intelligence....
What is the ability to identify your own and other people's emotions accurately-the ability to perceive, express, understand, and regulate emotions?