Seeing Things
These are ways that we can perceive depth without using two eyes (relative size is an example)
What is monocular cues?
The unconscious encoding of information into our memory
What is automatic processing?
Charles Spearman's g stands for this
What is general intelligence?
This is when we ignore evidence that challenges our preconceptions
What is confirmation bias?
This type of thinking leads to multiple possible solutions
What is divergent thinking?
This explains why you failed to see the gorilla because you were counting basketball passes
What is inattentional blindness?
This is encoding information in a meaningful way
What is semantic or deep processing?
This type of intelligence decreases as you age
What is fluid intelligence?
It's a step-by-step formula for solving a problem
What is algorithm?
It's what you see in your mind when you think of the doggiest dog
What is a prototype?
An open door might appear on our retinas as a trapezoid but this is why our brain still sees it as a rectangle
What is perceptual constancy (or shape constancy)?
What is serial position effect?
This is your ability to understand what another person is feeling
What is emotional intelligence?
It's a mental shortcut for solving a problem, often based on past experience
What is a heuristic?
They are mental groups of similar objects or ideas
What are concepts?
This term explains why you might call an egg white a "yolk" after hearing words like folk, broke, and croak.
What is perceptual set?
DAILY DOUBLE
This process strengthens connections between neurons and is the basis of learning and memory
What is long-term potentiation?
This measures whether a test gives consistent results when taken multiple times
What is reliability?
This explains why we might continue to believe something, despite seeing contrary evidence
What is belief perseverance?
This happens when a kid thinks a zebra is just a striped horse
What is assimilation?
This subfield of psychology explains how we group things that are similar, mentally close incomplete shapes, and associate things that appear similar
What is gestalt?
This is why you might be able to answer when a teacher sees you're distracted and asks "What did I just say?"
What is phonological loop?
What is the Weschler (WAIS) test?
This explains why we avoid swimming at the beach after watching a shark attack movie
This happens when a kid realizes that some mammals live in the ocean
What is accommodation?