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Cognition
Reasoning
Barriers to Reasoning
Intelligence Tests
Misc.
100
A mental category that groups objects, relations, activities, abstractions, or qulaities having common properties is called a...
What is a concept?
100
The drawing of conclusions or inferences from facts, observations, or assumptions is called....
What is reasoning?
100

A tendency to believe that you are better at something than you really are along with the inability to recognize your shortcomings is known as...

What is the Dunning Kruger Effect?

100

Created a test to measure general intelligence?

Alfred Binet

100

The primary drivers of intelligence are genetics and 

early life parental involvement

200

An inability to think critically or an altered state of thinking due to fix mindedness are called

cognitive distortions

200

Very intelligent people often lack the ability to socialize or overcome small setbacks due to 

low emotional intelligence

200
The tendency to look for evidence or information that only support's your belief or idea...
What is confirmation bias?
200
The general ability assumed to underlie specific mental abilities and talents measured by intelligence tests is called the .....
What is the g factor?
200

A person's experience or viewpoint is often shaped by their previous experiences and upbringing, also known as

schema

300
A representation that may occur in the sensory modals and resembles what it represents is a ...
What is a mental image?
300

Thinking you are the best at something or the worst is an example of...

all or nothing thinking

300

The tendency to increase your liking for something that you have worked hard for or suffered to attain....

What is justification of effort???

300

This test is often labeled as socio-economically biased due to the use of prep classes and tutors?

what is the SAT/ACT

300

the mental inflexibility & obliviousness to the current context of one's environment that prevents individuals from recognizing when a change in a situation requires a change in behavior is called ...

What is mindlessness or fixed mindset?

400

An integrated network, or mental representation, that includes associations, attitudes, and expectations are a

What is cognitive schema?

400
To actively learn something through chunking, processing, and practice?

what is explicit learning

400
The tendency to overestimate one's ability to have predicted event after the outcome is known....
What is hindsight bias?
400

This type of person has an extraordinary ability in a singular area such as math or music and is often connected to Autism or Aspergers?

what is savant

400

According to psychologists, what factor is the best indicator of future success in life?

Grit or perseverance

500

A type of thinking created by society that convinces us that it is natural but is learned through adults and societal expectations is called

a Prototype or Artificial Construct

500
To acquire knowledge of a task without awareness or intention is referred to as ...
What is implicit learning?
500
The state when a person holds two beliefs, thoughts, or attitudes (cognition) that are inconsistent with his/her belief or behavior....
What is cognitive dissonance?
500
Define emtional intelligence....
What is the ability to identify your own and other people's emotions accurately-the ability to perceive, express, understand, and regulate emotions?
500

Name two examples of historically misusing IQ test results.

Sterilization of low IQ's and tracking in school