refers to all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
What is Cognition
100
Step by step procedure that guarantees a solution
What is algorithm
100
Inability to see a problem from a fresh perspective
What is fixation
100
Tendency to overestimate accuracy of one's own knowledge is called what?
What is Overconfidence
100
This type of psychologist studies thinking.
What is a Cognitive Psychologist.
200
A robin would be a ____________ of a bird.
What is prototype
200
"Aha" moment
What is Insight
200
If you want to sleep but have no pillow, you could use your sweatshirt as a pillow. This would demonstrate your ability to overcome what?
What is functional fixedness
200
Example is George Bush (or Grant...)
What is Belief Perseverance
200
He is a behaviorist who says language develops through interactions
Who is B.F Skinner
300
A __________ is more personally formed than a concept.
What is a Schema
300
simpler, common sense strategies
What is heuristics
300
If you think Blake is a jerk, and you only look for ways he is a jerk while ignoring all the nice things he does, you are experiencing this.
What is Confirmation Bias
300
Our fear of flying comes from memories that pop into our heads of plane crashes shown on TV. This represents what vocab word.
What is availability heuristics
300
He came up with the idea that language shapes thinking
What is Ben Whorf
400
A recliner would fall under what concept?
What is a Chair.
400
Part of the brain that is active when we experience "insight"
What is right temporal lobe
400
What are the final three letters?
O-T-T-F-?-?-?
What is F,S,S
(One, Two, Three, Four....)
400
The example of the professor/truck driver used in the class what representing this.
What is representativeness heuristics
400
He said humans are predispositioned to learn language
Wh0 is Noam Chomsky
500
Mental groupings of similar objects.
What is Concept
500
Solve the problem:
How can you physically stand behind your father while he is standing behind you?
What is standing back to back.
500
Figuring out how to mount the candle to the wall was used as an example of this in class.
What is Functional fixedness
500
This operates when we base our judgments on how mentally available information is.
What is availability heuristic
500
What psychologist would say this, "because the child wasn't given proper nurture, she was unable to develop the parts of the brain needed for language"