Thinking, Concepts and Creativity
Retrieval Failure
Types of Memory
Language
Making Decisions
100

Single-answer intelligence tests demand this type of thinking.

What is convergent thinking?

100

That eerie sense of "I have experienced this before."

What is deja vu?
100

This type of memory has limited Capacity.

What is short term memory?

100

The stage of language development that begins when the child is about 4 months old.

What is the babbling stage?

100

A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence.

What is confirmation bias?

200

A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas or people.

What is a concept?

200

In the traffic accident experiment conducted by Loftus and Palmer, this word caused participants to report higher speeds.

What is "smashed"?

200

This type of memory is usually of emotionally significant moment or event. An example of this is 9/11

What are flashbulb memories?

200

Early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram, using mostly nouns and verbs. 

What is telegraphic speech?

200

How we present an issue (may change our approach to a problem).

What is framing?

300

Most people would say a robin fits the ____ _______ more than a penguin.

What is the bird prototype?

300

Leading questions are illegal in witness questioning due to this concept.

What is the misinformation effect?

300

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?

300

Controls language expression and directs the muscle movements involved in speech.

What is Broca's Area?

300

Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match particular prototypes

What is representativeness heuristic?

400

A person who is innovative and expands the number of possible solutions.

What is a divergent thinker?
400

Recognizing someone but having no idea where you know them from is an example of this concept.

What is source amnesia?

400

This type of memory is the sensory memory of auditory stimuli.  


What is echoic memory?

400

Linguist who theorized that all children are born with the innate ability to learn any language.

Who is Noam Chomsky?

400

Clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited.

What is belief perseverance?

500

The four factors that define cognition.

What is thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating?

500

This famous psychologist learned that a memory from his childhood (about him almost getting kidnapped) never actually happened.

Who is Jean Piaget?

500

People with this type of memory are really good at remembering details of their own lives. 

What are highly superior autobiographical memories?

500

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?

500

Defining the problem; analyzing the problem; determining what to do; implementing the plan; evaluating progress.

What is the problem solving method?