Thinking
Mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
What is cognition?
The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
What is intelligence?
Thinking about thinking
What is metacognition?
Spoken, written, or signed words, and the ways they are combined to communicate meaning
What is language?
The best example of a particular category
What is a prototype?
A general intelligence factor that underlies successful performance on a wide variety of tasks
What is Spearman's g or general intelligence?
The ability to speak
What is productive language?
Reliance on quick intuitive, judgments to make decisions
What is heuristics?
Theory that identified nine independent intelligences, including interpersonal, linguistic, and logical-mathematical aptitudes
What is Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences?
The ability to understand words
What is receptive language?
Our tendency to judge the likelihood of an event on the basis of how readily we can remember instances of its occurrence
What is the availability heuristic?
Type of intelligence that allows you to think speedily and abstractly
What is fluid intelligence?
The conclusion "Identical twins raised separately are more similar in their intelligence test scores than fraternal twins raised together" indicates
Intelligence test scores are influenced by heredity
Type of intelligence where knowledge accumulates over time and increases with age
What is crystalized intelligence?