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100
Thinking about thinking
What is metacognition?
100
A rule of thumb used in solving problems or making decisions
What is a heuristic?
100
This psychological approach emphasizes the whole being different from the sum of its parts.
What is Gestalt Psychology
100
A child's mental age divided by chronological age, multiplied by 100
What is the intelligence quotient (IQ)?
100
Depth cues requiring input from both eyes, like retinal disparity and convergence.
What are binocular depth cues?
200
When asked to name a bird, most people think of a robin rather than a penguin because a robin fits this concept better.
What is a prototype?
200
When you assume something is more likely because it matches your expectation/prototype
What is the representativeness heuristic?
200
This Gestalt principle allows us to see that this image is a soccer ball.
What is closure?
200
This is high when an IQ test measures what it was designed to measure
What is validity?
200
Depth cues requiring only one eye, such as linear perspective and interposition.
What are monocular depth cues?
300
Using a shoe to hammer a nail is an example of overcoming this
What is functional fixedness?
300
Explains why people might think they are more likely be in a plane crash than in a car accident
What is the availability heuristic?
300
Objects that are near each other tend to be perceived as a group due to this principle.
What is proximity?
300
This term refers to the overarching cognitive capability believed to underlie performance across various mental tasks.
What is general ability or g?
300
This depth cue explains why distant objects appear hazier than closer ones.
What is relative clarity?
400
Example: After pushing open a door, you later continue to try to push open a door that needs to be pulled
What is a mental set?
400
Using a step-by-step procedure guaranteed to solve a math problem, like long division, is an example of this method.
What is an Algorithm?
400
When you see either a vase or two faces in the famous Rubin’s vase illusion, you are experiencing this principle of distinguishing objects from their background.
What is figure-ground?
400
Increased schooling and more demanding curricula are proposed explanations for this 100+ year trend of higher IQ scores
What is the Flynn effect?
400
A cue where texture becomes finer and less detailed with increasing distance.
What is texture gradient?
500
Believing that a roulette wheel is "due" to land on black after several spins of red demonstrates this mistaken belief.
What is the gambler's fallacy?
500
Coming up with as many uses as possible for a paperclip demonstrates this type of thinking associated with creativity.
What is divergent thinking?
500
When you perceive rows of circles and squares grouped by shape rather than a random assortment, you’re applying this Gestalt principle.
What is similarity?
500
Administering the same test to the same group at two different times to assess consistency measures this type of reliability.
What is test-retest reliability?
500
When one object partially blocks another, this cue helps indicate depth.
What is interposition?