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Miscellaneous
Language Structure
Intelligence
100

The process of trying things over and over until you get it right, like the Tigers and Zebras activity.

What is trial and error?

100

A sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem.  An "aha!" moment.

What is insight?

100

Early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram, using mostly nouns and words. ("Go car")

What is telegraphic or two-word development.

100

The way an issue is posed.  Would you rather see a doctor who saves 98% of his patients or see a doctor where 2% of his patients die.

What is framing?

100

One of two tests that measure IQ as a score.

What is Stanford-Binet or Wechsler?

200
A mental image or best example of a category.
What is prototype?
200

Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think.

What is linguistic determinism?

200
The ability to advance as a species by using visual theft?

What is social learning?

200

The smallest unit of language with sound.

What is a phoneme?

200

Type of intelligence tested by the RAT and artistic ability.

What is creative intelligence?

300
A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.
What is concept?
300
A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence.
What is confirmation bias?
300

Beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds.

What is the babbling stage?

300

The smallest distinctive sound unit with meaning.

What is morpheme?

300

People with overall low mental abilities, but amazing abilities in certain areas (memory).

What are savants?

400
A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently.
What is heuristic?
400
The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions.
What is functional fixedness?
400
The tendency to be more confident than correct.
What is overconfidence?
400
Rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language.
What is syntax?
400

It's the type of test you will be taking tomorrow.

What is an achievement test?

500
A methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem.
What is algorithm?
500
The inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set.
What is fixation?
500

A plane crashes right in the middle of the Mississippi River between Missouri and Illinois.  In which state would you bury the survivors?

What is neither, survivors are usually not buried.?

500
Set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words and sentences in a given laguage.
What is semantics?
500

Tests that measure what your potential ability is.

What are aptitude tests?