Organizing Thoughts
This term refers to the mental process of acquiring, processing, and storing information.
What is cognition?
These are step-by-step procedures that guarantee a solution if followed correctly.
What are algorithms?
The ability to understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways is known as this.
What is emotional intelligence?
This refers to the consistency of test scores over time or across different test administrators.
What is reliability?
In order for a standardized test to be considered acceptable, it must be ____, _____, and _____.
Reliable, Valid, and Standardized.
A mental grouping of similar objects, events, or ideas
What is a concept?
What is this called?
Availability heuristic
This theory of intelligence, proposed by Sternberg, includes analytical, creative, and practical intelligences.
What is the triarchic theory?
This measures how well a test actually measures what it claims to measure.
What is validity?
This type of thinking focuses on finding the single best solution to a problem.
What is convergent thinking?
Fill in the blanks:
A robin is a ___________ of our _____________ of birds. Whereas a penguin is not.
A robin is a prototype of our concept of birds.
Name a pro and a con of using algorithms to solve problems.
Pro: foolproof - will definitively give you an answer
Con: time-consuming
Name at least 4 of Gardner's multiple intelligences.
Musical, spatial, linguistic, logical-mathematical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic intelligences.
Mr. Wu, a statistics teacher, gives his students a unit test at the end of every unit. What type of tests are they?
Achievement tests
Believing that after several "heads" in a coin toss, "tails" is more likely to occur next is an example of ______.
The gambler's fallacy
Charlotte attends her first wedding as a flower girl. As she attends this wedding, she notices the details (bride wears white, groom wears tux, there are flowers) and creates a schema for a wedding.
What is this process called?
Assimilation
Tara is asked to meet her aunt's new boyfriend who will be picking her up from the train station. Her aunt tells her that he is a professional wrestler. Tara sees three men waiting at the train station. One who is short and wearing a suit, one who is tall, buff, and wearing jeans and a cut-off tank top, and one who is wearing a rainbow crocheted outfit. Tara approaches the tall buff man, but realizes that is not who she is meant to be meeting, her aunt's boyfriend was the man in the suit.
What method of problem solving did Tara use to find her aunt's boyfriend?
Heuristics
This theory was based on the idea that people who excel in one area have a tendency to excel in all other areas as well.
What is general intelligence(g)?
Mrs. Cain, a middle school guidance counselor, has all of her students complete a test which once completed gives them a list of careers that would best suit the student. What type of test was it?
Aptitude test.
Only seeing a hammer as a tool for nails, rather than as a potential paperweight or door stop is an example of _____.
Functional fixedness
Anthony, a 3-year old, has a neighbor who got a dog as a pet. Anthony now thinks that all pets must be dogs. So, when Anthony goes to his friend's house, he thinks their pet cat is a dog. What must Anthony do to fit cats into his schema of pets?
Accommodate the information into his schema of pets
continuing to watch a boring movie just because you've already spent an hour on it demonstrates____________.
The sunk-cost fallacy
Explain the difference between crystallized intelligence (gC) and fluid intelligence (gF).
Crystallized intelligence involves the ability to use previously learned information to solve new problems.
Fluid intelligence involves the ability to reason abstractly and solve novel problems.
What is one proposed reason as for why the Flynn effect has occurred?
More exposure to education in the general population.
Brainstorming multiple uses for a paperclip demonstrates _______.
Divergent thinking.