Cognition and Language
The study of how people think
What is Cognitive Psychology?
A plan of action to find a solution to a problem
What is Problem-Solving?
The ability to see complex relationships and solve problems
What is Fluid Intelligence?
Intelligence Quotient
What is IQ?
The theory that each person responds to the environment differently based on their genetics
What is Range of Reaction?
Categories of information and ideas
What are Concepts?
A general problem-solving framework
What is Heuristic?
Common sense
What is Practical Intelligence?
The theory that each generation has a higher IQ than the last
What is the Flynn Effect?
Things that we are born knowing
What is Nature?
Communication involving words and rules to organize words in order to transmit information from person to person
What is Language?
What is a Mental Set?
Academic type problem solving and computation
What is Analytical Intelligence?
What is Standardization?
Things that we learn as we grow
What is Nurture?
The words of a given language
What is Lexicon?
When one focuses only on information that upholds their preexisting beliefs
What is Confirmation Bias?
The ability to understand one's own feelings as well as the feelings of others
What is Emotional Intelligence?
A subset of a population that represents the general population
What is a Representative Sample?
The basic sound unit of a language
What is Phoneme?
The inability to see an object having uses other than what they are designed to be used for
What is Functional Fixedness?
The ability to create new ideas or solutions
What is Creativity?
Testing a large population for data
What is Norming?