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Concepts and Problem Solving 1
Concepts and Problem Solving 2
Intelligence
Language Structure
Language Development
100

How we solved the Hobbits and Orcs crossing the river problem?

What is trial and error?

100

A sudden realization of the solution to a problem.

What is insight?

100

This involves dividing a child's mental age by their chronological age and multiplying that number by 100.

What is IQ?

100
The way an issue is posed.
What is framing?
100
The smallest unit that carries meaning.
What is morpheme?
200
A mental image or best example of a category.
What is prototype?
200

The problem solving technique used to remember where you left your car keys last.

What is working backwards?

200

Spearman's general intelligence theory can be summed up by this letter.

What is g?

200
The way we combine our spoken, written, or signed words to communicate meaning.
What is language?
200

System of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others.

What is grammar?

300

A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.  Like this unit, Cognition.

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

The ASVAB test, taken to gain entrance into the military, is considered to be this type of test.

What is an aptitude test?

300
The smallest distinctive sound unit.
What is phoneme?
300

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

What is telegraphic speech or two-word?

400

A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently.  Not always correct, but quicker.

What is heuristic?

400
The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions.
What is functional fixedness?
400

These people are on both sides of the IQ scale.

Who are savants?

400
Rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language.
What is syntax?
400

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

What is babbling stage?

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

Robert Sternberg proposed a Triarchic Theory of intelligence. Name one of those types of intelligence.

What is Analytic, Creative, or Practical?

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

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

What is linguistic determinism?