Thinking, Concepts and Creativity
Single-answer intelligence tests demand this type of thinking.
What is convergent thinking?
That eerie sense of "I have experienced this before."
This type of memory has limited Capacity.
What is short term memory?
The stage of language development that begins when the child is about 4 months old.
What is the babbling stage?
A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence.
What is confirmation bias?
A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas or people.
What is a concept?
In the traffic accident experiment conducted by Loftus and Palmer, this word caused participants to report higher speeds.
What is "smashed"?
This type of memory is usually of emotionally significant moment or event. An example of this is 9/11
What are flashbulb memories?
Early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram, using mostly nouns and verbs.
What is telegraphic speech?
How we present an issue (may change our approach to a problem).
What is framing?
Most people would say a robin fits the ____ _______ more than a penguin.
What is the bird prototype?
Leading questions are illegal in witness questioning due to this concept.
What is the misinformation effect?
This is a newer type of memory. It focuses on active processing of incoming information and connecting it with information retrieved from long term memory.
What is working memory?
Controls language expression and directs the muscle movements involved in speech.
What is Broca's Area?
Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match particular prototypes
What is representativeness heuristic?
A person who is innovative and expands the number of possible solutions.
Recognizing someone but having no idea where you know them from is an example of this concept.
What is source amnesia?
This type of memory is the sensory memory of auditory stimuli.
What is echoic memory?
Linguist who theorized that all children are born with the innate ability to learn any language.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
Clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited.
What is belief perseverance?
The four factors that define cognition.
What is thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating?
This famous psychologist learned that a memory from his childhood (about him almost getting kidnapped) never actually happened.
Who is Jean Piaget?
People with this type of memory are really good at remembering details of their own lives.
What are highly superior autobiographical memories?
States that the structure of a language affects a person's perspective of the world and how they may process information accordingly.
What is Whorf's hypothesis?
Defining the problem; analyzing the problem; determining what to do; implementing the plan; evaluating progress.
What is the problem solving method?