Language
When Yoda says "Afraid you will be" he is violating this rule of language
What is syntax?
Tim looks up words he doesn't know in the dictionary when he encounters them while reading novels. This process increases Tim's _______
What is lexicon?
This is the sudden realization of the solution to a problem
What is insight (or eureka/aha moment)?
Sarah thinks that Mustangs are really popular cars because she just bought one and now notices them everywhere. This is an example of which barrier to reasoning
What is the availability heuristic?
"The sidewalk was covered in ice. Ramona fell down." The kind of inference we use to link these two sentences is called
What is a bridging inference?
Readers with _____ working memory capacity for language make elaborative inferences during reading
What is high?
What do Gestalt psychologists think you often need to do to a problem in order to solve it
What is restructure the problem?
Believing that good things will happen to you if you are wearing your "lucky jacket" is an example of which kind of barrier to reasoning
What is illusory correlation?
In an experiment in which participants were presented with individual words taken from their own conversations, they could identify _____ of the words spoken by their own voices
What is 50%?
_____ coherence refers to the processing of the topic of a story/paragraph and takes place in the _____ hemisphere
The time between when you stop thinking about a problem and a solution comes to mind
What is incubation?
Shiela is blonde, extremely attractive, and lives in an expensive condo. We may tend to think she might be a model because of which barrier to effective reasoning
What is the representative heuristic?
We take longer to read and process ____ frequency words compared to ____ frequency words.
What are low and high?
"The dog tried to jump over the fence. He didn't make it." The kind of inference used to connect these two sentences is called
What is anaphoric inference?
In the Tower of Hanoi problem, the _____ state involves having three discs stacked on the left peg, with the middle and right pegs empty
What is the initial state?
If a cop believes that young female drivers speed more than any other group, the police officer will likely notice young female drivers speeding but fail to notice other drivers doing the same thing. This is an example of which barrier to reasoning
What is confirmation bias?
Brain imaging studies indicate that semantics and syntax are associated with these two lobes of the cerebral cortex
What are the temporal and frontal lobes?
These are things that the N400 component of the ERP is sensitive to
What are semantic expectancy and math errors?
Name the 4 variables that affect creativity
What are knowledge, personality, motivation, environment
This is when an individual's support for a viewpoint becomes even stronger when given facts opposing their view.
What is the backfire effect?