Mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people are called what?
Concepts
The tendency to overestimate the accuracy of our knowledge and judgments is called what?
Overconfidence
What is a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems usually speedier but also more error prone?
Heuristics
What is a sudden realization of a problem’s solution known as?
Insight
What is our ability to learn known as?
Aptitude
The way an issue is posed and can significantly affect decisions and judgements is known as what?
Framing
By what age do most children enter the 2-word stage?
2
At about what age does those who have not been exposed to language lose their ability to master any language?
7
At what age does the Babbling stage begin?
4 months
What is the inability to come to a fresh perspective known as?
Fixation
What is estimating the likelihood of events in terms of how well they seem to match particular prototypes?
Representativeness Heuristic
What is the ability to inhibit one language while using the other called?
Bilingual Advantage
What is a mental picture of how you do something known as?
Implicit Memory
What is a language impairment known as?
Aphasia
What is our ability to consider many different options and to think in novel ways known as?
Divergent Thinking
What is it called when children start uttering two-word sentences?
Telegraphic speech
What is it called when someone uses conclusions to assess evidence, rather than using evidence to draw conclusions?
Motivated Reasoning
What kind of heuristic operates when we estimate how common an event is based on its mental availability?
Availability heuristic
What leads us to seek evidence for our ideas more eagerly than we seek evidence against them?
Confirmation Bias
Damage to what area of the brain would cause a person to struggle to speak words, yet could sing familiar songs and comprehend speech?
Broca's Area
Creativity is the ability to produce ideas that are what two things?
To rein in belief perseverance, a simple remedy is to do what?
Consider the opposite
Explain four ideas that researchers offer to boost the creative process.
Explain 3 intuition powers that Cognitive scientists have revealed.
Name the three building blocks for spoken language.
Phonemes
Morphemes
Grammar