Cognition and Decision-Making
A grouping of things such as objects, events, or ideas.
Concept
T/F- all language is spoken.
False
What kind of graph would you see represented with IQ scores?
Bell curve
What is associative learning?
Learning that is defined by an organism associating something with events in their environment.
What is a flashbulb memory?
Emotionally-charged memory where the person remembers little details about the event.
What kind of bias is best represented by the following phrase?
"I should have bet on the Eagles to win the Super Bowl at the beginning of the season"
Hindsight bias
Children usually start with language development by what?
Cooing and crying
What is emotional intelligence?
Ability to read and respond to others as well as your own.
What type of learning was the primary focus in Pavlov's dogs experiment?
What type of encoding involves encoding the meaning of a vocabulary word?
Semantic encoding
This occurs when someone continues to sink money into something that would be more rational to abandon, because of how much they already sunk into it.
Sunk-cost fallacy
The basic sound units of a language that have meaning.
Morphemes
Under the triarchic theory of intelligence, which type of intelligence is our everyday knowledge?
Practical intelligence
A punch card from a local eatery that allows you to get a free sandwich with the purchase of 10 would be what type of reinforcement schedule?
Fixed ratio schedule
This is a type of memory of events you have coming up, such as a future doctor's appointment?
Prospective memory
What is the issue with a heuristic?
It isn't always reliable.
This is the way in which words are supposed to be arranged in a sentence.
Syntax
What type of intelligence tends to decrease as we age?
Fluid intelligence
Which principle of operant conditioning would be occurring if I am giving something unpleasant to decrease a behavior?
Positive punishment
What type of amnesia happens where the person can't remember new information?
Anterograde amnesia
What type of concept comes from our experience?
Natural
Why is language considered to have a critical period?
If we don't learn it by a certain age, we will never be able to fully grasp.
What is crystallized intelligence?
Knowledge of basic facts.
What is latent learning?
Learning that isn't noticed until it has the opportunity to be expressed.
What is the "rule of 7"?
Our short-term memory can only remember 7 bits of information.