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Problem Solving
Dialectical Thinking
Consciousness
Intelligence
Recent Developments
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This is the process by which we attempt to discover ways of achieving goals that do not seem readily attainable.
What is problem solving?
100
This is the tendency to accept what seem to be contradictions in thought or beliefs.
What is dialectical thinking?
100
This was the first person to suggest that cultures differ in their time perspective and orientation?
Who is E.T. Hall?
100
The word "intelligence" is derived from this ancient language.
What is Latin?
100
Until very recently, this was not considered part of intelligence.
What is creativity?
200
As with other cultural differences in cognition and thought, the ability to provide the correct answer to verbal problems is found to be closely associated with this.
What is school attendance?
200
This is the tendency to see contradictions as mutually exclusive categories, as either-or, yes-no, one-or-the-other types of categories.
What is positive logical determinism?
200
Which climate tends to have slow cities?
What is hot?
200
The first modern intelligence tests were developed in this era.
What is the early 1900s?
200
This type of intelligence refers to an individual's ability to adapt to the environment, solving problems in specific situation.
What is contextual intelligence?
300
"All children like candy. Mary is a child. Does Mary like candy?" is an example of this.
What is a syllogism?
300
This is a constellation of lay beliefs about the nature of the world (rather than a cognitive style as suggested by dialectical thinking). It is characterized by the doctrine of the mean, or the belief that the truth is always somewhere in the middle.
What is naive dialectivism?
300
Which children experience external scenes of anxiety?
What is Palestinian?
300
These three immigrant groups were labeled as mentally defective at Ellis Island in 1913.
What are Italian, Hungarian, and Jewish?
300
This type of intelligence refers to the ability to think abstractly, process information, and determine what needs to be done.
What is componential intelligence?
400
Tulviste's study of 1978 lent support to the hypothesis that logical reasoning is essentially this, as it is a skill that must be learned in a Westernized school setting.
What is artificial?
400
Peng and Nisbett (1999) found that East Asians tend to prefer dialectical thinking, whereas this group tends to prefer logical deterministic thinking.
What are Americans?
400
This culture in Central America interprets and shares dreams.
What are the Mayan Indians?
400
In one study, black and interracial children adopted by white families tended to score higher or lower than the IQ and school achievement means for whites.
What is higher? (Scarr and Weinberg, 1976)
400
This is the intelligence that refers to the ability to formulate new ideas and combine unrelated facts.
What is experiential intelligence?
500
Researchers Cole, Jay, Glick, J.A., Sharp, and D.W. (1971) found that the Liberians in their study drew logical conclusions effortlessly when presented with problems using familiar materials and concepts. However these same Liberians had difficulty knowing where to begin with an alien test situation. The researchers concluded that the Liberian's ability to reason logically to solve problems depended on this.
What is context?
500
Dialectical thinkers show this when trying to explain or predict events and this of contradictions.
What are greater expectation of change and greater tolerance?
500
Women in this country say that childbirth and labor pain is something natural which they should accept.
What is Finland?
500
Many researchers and psychologists have been persuaded to stay away from discussions and research of the origins of intelligence because many people have suggested that doing the research is this.
What is unethical?
500
The type of intelligence that strongly correlates with the average social sensitivity of group members, the equality in distribution of conversational turn taking, and the proportion of females in the group.
What is collective intelligence?