Thinking
All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating is called
What is cognition?
A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas or people.
What is a concept?
The earliest stage of speech development is called
What is babbling?
Intelligence is defined as
What is the mental ability to learn from experience?
Spearman created this term to describe a general ability underlying all mental ability
What is the g factor?
The best example of a particular category.
What is a prototype?
Reading the chapter took you twice as long as you anticipated. This is due to
What is overconfidence?
The correct way to string words together to form sentences for a given language
What is syntax?
Someone who works hard demonstrates a level of this
What is grit or motivation?
The ability to perceive, understand, manage and use emotions is called this.
What is emotional intelligence?
The inability to see a problem from a new perspective is called
What is fixation?
The name of the African Grey parrot who reportedly learned to count and add small numbers
Who is Alex?
Area of the brain cortex that controls muscle movements involved in speech production
What is Broca's area?
The test you are going to take over Ch 8 would be called this kind of a test
What is an achievement test?
An ACT test predicts college success and would be considered this kind of a test.
What is an aptitude test?
Our tendency to judge the likelihood of a plane crash based on the number of plane crashes we see on the news is called
What is the availability heuristic?
A sudden realization of a situation or problems is called
What is insight?
Broca's area located in this part of the brain
Where is the left frontal lobe?
Who were the French psychologist that created the test to predict school achievement after WWI?
Who were Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon?
The ability to learn new skills is to ________________ as the ability to remember old facts is to __________ .
What is fluid intelligence to crystallized intelligence?
The best advice to give to someone who wants to avoid belief perseverance is
What is "consider the opposite view"?
Giving complex ideas time to mature outside of conscious awareness promotes
What is creativity?
Wernicke's area is located in this part of the brain
Where is the left temporal lobe?
Name the three Tests of a "Good" test.
What are standardization, reliability and validity?
Name the 4 categories of David Wechsler's WAIS test.
What are verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, working memory and processing speed?