Organizing the World
This German word means a "form" or a "whole, or the whole may exceed the sum of its parts.
What is Gestalt?
Research shows that after being exposed to images of scary monsters, children are more likely to perceive a literal "log" in the woods as a "beast." This specific mental tendency is known as this.
What is perceptual set?
This Sunday's Super Bowl is designated by these two Roman numerals, which represent the number 60.
What is LX?
This methodical, step-by-step procedure guarantees a solution to a problem but can be very slow.
What is an algorithm?
Clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited.
What is belief perserverance?
This type of test is designed to reflect what a person has already learned, such as an AP exam.
What is an achievement test?
This is Mr. Waltman's all-time favorite band.
Who is U2?
Our first perceptual task is to perceive any object as distinct from its surroundings. This process is known by this hyphenated term.
What is figure-ground?
Through this process, our conscious awareness focuses, like a flashlight beam, on only a minute aspect of all that we experience.
What is selective attention?
The 2026 Winter Olympics are currently being held in Italy; name either of the two main host cities.
What is Milan or Cortina?
A simple thinking strategy or "mental shortcut" that allows us to solve problems efficiently but is more error-prone than an algorithm
What is a heuristic?
This cognitive bias is demonstrated by the "planning fallacy," where students consistently underestimate how long it will take them to finish an assignment, erroneously believing they will be faster than they actually are.
What is overconfidence?
Charles Spearman believed we have one of these, an underlying mental capacity that can be measured by every task on an intelligence test.
What is general intelligence (or "g")?
Mr. Waltman earned his Psychology degree from this University.
What is the University of Pittsburgh?
This Gestalt grouping principle explains why we perceive uniform and linked items as a single unit.
What is connectedness?
Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere is known by this term.
What is inattentional blindness?
This Sunday's matchup features a cross-country battle between the New England Patriots and this bird-themed team from the Pacific Northwest.
Who are the Seattle Seahawks?
This is a sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem, often referred to as an "Aha!" moment.
What is insight?
This is the tendency to judge the likelihood of things based on how well they seem to match a particular prototype or stereotype.
What is the representative heuristic?
To be widely accepted, psychological tests must meet these three criteria: they must be standardized, reliable, and this.
What is valid (or validity)?
Mr. Waltman has how many children?
What is the number 2? (Collin - 31 and Zoe - 27)
The depth cues, such as interposition and linear perspective, are available to each eye separately.
What are monocular cues?
This specific type of selective attention is your ability to attend to only one voice among many at a loud party.
What is the cocktail party effect?
In the Winter Olympics, this sport involves athletes using brooms to sweep the ice in front of a sliding stone.
What is Curling?
These are the high-level cognitive skills that allow us to generate, organize, plan, and implement goal-directed behavior.
What are executive functions?
This mental shortcut leads us to estimate the frequency of an event based on how easily examples of it come to mind, such as fearing a plane crash after seeing one on the news.
What is the availability heuristic?
This term refers to our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills, which tends to increase with age.
What is crystallized intelligence?
Mr. Waltman started teaching for Webster CSD in this year.
What is 1993?
This is the the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field, such as when wearing "inversion goggles."
What is perceptual adaptation?
This cognitive phenomenon occurs when our existing schemas, motivations, or the immediate surrounding environment filter our sensory input to create a specific interpretation.
What are context-effects OR What is top-down processing?
This Puerto Rican superstar and "King of Latin Trap" is the confirmed headliner for this Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show.
Who is Bad Bunny?
This obstacle to problem solving is the inability to see a problem from a new perspective.
What is fixation? OR What is mental set?
This term describes how the specific wording or presentation of an issue (like "95% success rate" vs "5% failure rate") can significantly change our decisions.
What is framing?
This is a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype, which can impact test performance.
What is stereotype threat?
This Webster Schroeder teacher was a student at Schroeder during Mr. Waltman's teaching career.
Who is Mr. Eckler or Mr. DeWitte or Mr. Strege, or Mrs. Roberts, or Mrs. Goodsell