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What is cognition?
What is all mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
What is intuition?
What is effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning?
What is fixation?
What is the inability to adopt to a fresh perspective?
What are intelligence tests?
What is the assessment of aptitudes and the comparison of them with those of others, using numerical scores?
What are Achievement tests?
What are tests intended to reflect what is learned?
What is Representation?
What is an internal state that carries information about something in the world (like a code or signal)?
What is confirmation bias?
What is the tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence?
What is a mental set?
What is the tendency to approach problems
with a mindset of what has worked previously?
What is an Aptitude test?
What is a test intended to predict ability to learn some new skill?
Describe intelligence across the life span:
- Before age 3: Modest prediction of future aptitudes from casual observation and intelligence test; By age 4: Intelligence tests begin to predict adolescent and adult score; and finally by ages 11 to 70: Impressive stability, independent of life circumstances
What is a schema?
What is a theory of how concepts are represented?
What is a concept?
What is mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
What is framing perseverance?
What is the strategic presentation of an issue?
What is linguistic determinism?
What is Whorf’s hypothesis that language determines the way we think; considered too extreme?
What is eugenics?
What is the arrangement of reproduction within a population to increase the occurrence of heritable genes (think WWII)?
What is processing/computation/cognition?
What is changing the information content of representations; combining, associating, comparing?
What is the difference between a prototype and an exemplar?
What is prototype meaning is a mental image or best example of a category; used to quickly match someone or something into a category, which differs with an exemplar in that it is just a quick abstract category and an exemplar is an actual member of a category pulled from memory?
What is intelligence?
What is the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations?
What is receptive language?
What is the recognition of differences in
speech sounds?
What is productive language?
What is the language that develops after receptive
language? (different stages such as babbling)
What is a semantic network and how is it different than a schema?
What is another theory of how concepts are represented with the only difference being the organization of concepts being through nodes for semantic network all connected while schema is more of a framework/lens used to view/categorize the world?
What is the difference between representativeness heuristic and availability heuristic?
What is availability heuristic following the assumption that something must be commonplace because it can be thought of, while representativeness heuristic is more focused on it being common place on how closely it matches the prototype?
What is general intelligence (g)?
What is underlies all mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test, all rooted to one ability?
What is Sternberg's three intellegence?
What is analytical (academic problem-solving), creative, and practical intelligence?
What is Gardner's multiple intelligences?
What is the idea that there is not just one type of intelligence, no one size fits all, but everyone is still intelligent in their own way; all intelligences are separate and not connected?