Mental categories that are used to group objects, events and characteristics
Concepts
Reasoning from specific observations to make generalizations
Inductive Reasoning
The ability to learn from one’s experience, acquire knowledge, and use resources effectively in adapting the new situation or solving problems.
Intelligence
A form of communication - whether spoken, written, or signed - that is based on a system of symbols.
Language
This involves manipulating and processing information as well as thinking.
Cognition
An example of a concept that closely matches the defining characteristics of a concept.
Prototype Model
Reasoning from a general case that is known to be true to a specific instance.
Deductive Reasoning
An individual's level of mental development relative to that of others.
Mental Age
A language's sound system
Phonology
Interpreting the events and experiences in one's life as harmful and threatening, or as challenging, and determining whether one has the resources to cope effectively
Cognitive Appraisal
Intermediate goals or intermediate problems devised put the individual in a better position for reaching the final goal or solution
Subgoals
The tendency to strongly prefer to avoid losses compared to acquiring gains
Loss Aversion
Intelligence tests that are intended to be culturally unbiased
Culture-fair Tests
The meaning of words and sentences in a particular language.
Ex: Girl , Woman
Semantics
Managing taxing circumstances, expending effort to solve life's problems, and seeking to master or reduce stress.
Coping
Shortcut strategies of guidelines that suggest a solution to a problem but do not guarantee an answer.
Heuristics
The tendency to search for and use information that supports one's ideas rather than refutes them.
Confirmation Bias
What is the answer to this problem?
What kind of test is this called?
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Raven Progressive Matrices Test
Using the character of language and communicating more than verbalizing.
Ex. Asking a stranger in Madrid "Autobus?"
Pragmatics
Regulating one's feelings about an experience by reinterpreting that experience or thinking about it in a different way or from a different angle.
Cognitive Reappraisal
Failing to solve a problem as a result of fixation on a thing's usual function.
Functional Fixedness
A prediction about the probability of an event based on the ease of recalling or imagining similar events.
Availability Heuristic
Analytical Intelligence
Creative Intelligence
Practical Intelligence
These three forms of Intelligence are _______, developed by ______.
These three forms of Intelligence are triarchic theory of intelligence , developed by Robert J. Sternberg.
The view that language learning involves an interaction between environmental factors and an inborn tendency to acquire language
psycholinguistic theory
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