Problem Solving
An advertiser tries to evoke a positive mood in order to get the customer to buy their product. They are using a heuristic in this case.
What is affective?
Language is more easily picked up in the first few years of life. Thus, we would refer to the period of time as a in development.
What is a sensitive period?
The 'average' IQ score on the WAIS.
What is 100?
This type of parent tends to value rules highly, but may generally be low in warmth and affection towards their children.
What is authoritarian?
What is sensorimotor?
In our Zoom activity, robins and eagles were noted as the 'birdiest' birds. In our activity, these would be considered our for the concept of birds.
What is a prototype?
This part of the brain, located in the frontal lobe, is responsible for speech production, but not comprehension.
What is Broca's area?
The ACT and SAT are believed to be predictive of academic success in the college environment. Thus we would call them tests.
This part of the brain is the last to reach full maturity
What is the frontal lobe?
This researcher believed we learn best when we are appropriately challenged by our teachers, otherwise known as the Zone of Proximal development
Who is Vygotsky?
Gasoline can only be used to fuel a boat, not start a fire. In our 'lifeboat' activity, this would be an example of this concept at play.
What is functional fixedness?
This is the first stage of the universal sequence of language, which involves the repetition of consonant sounds.
What is babbling?
This type of intelligence, considered to be a part of Spearman's g-factor, increases over the lifespan.
What is crystallized intelligence?
The Still-Face experiment
A child in this stage of Piaget's theory will no longer struggle with conservation tasks or egocentrism, but may have trouble with abstract thinking.
What is concrete operations?
If I randomly try different solutions in order to get the answer, without any specific rhyme or reason, I am using this problem solving technique.
What is trial and error?
We typically use different terms when talking with our friends than with our grandparents. This is the term that refers to the 'rules' of the practical use of language.
What are pragmatics?
I am interested in whether an IQ test has consistent results each time a person takes it. Thus I am concerned with the of the test.
What is reliability?
This type of research design follows the same group of people at different stages or ages to look at changes across the lifespan.
What is longitudinal research?
The majority of babies in the Strange Situation experiment fall into this category of attachment.
What is secure attachment?
If we have too many choices, we may experience 'choice paralysis'. This supports the theory of .
What is bounded rationality?
This individual believed language shapes our thinking. If we don't have a word for it, we don't really think about it.
Who is Benjamin Whorf?
Sternberg's model of intelligence includes practical, creative, and this type of intelligence.
What is analytical?
What is 'theory of mind'?
What is identity vs. role confusion?