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Ch 9

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Thinking   the mental process of manipulating information by forming concepts, solving problems, making decisions, and reflecting critically or creatively  
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Subconscious processes   mental processes occurring outside of consious awareness but accessible to consciousness when necessary  
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Non-conscious processes   mental processes occurring outside of and not available to consciousness  
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Implicit learning   when you have acquired knowledge about something without being aware how you did so, and without being able to state exactly what you have learned  
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Mindlessness   mental inflexibility, inertia, and obliviousness  
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Heuristic   a rule of thumb that suggests a course of action or guides problem solving but oes not guarantee an optimal solution  
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Affect heuristic   the tendency to consult one’s emotions instead of estimating probabilities objectively  
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Availability heuristic   the tendency to judge the probability of a type of event by how easy it is to think of examples or instances  
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Framing effect   the sense of fairness takes precedence over rational self-interest when people make economic choices  
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Hindsight bias   the tendency to overestimate one’s ability to have predicted an event once the outcome is known  
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Confirmation bias   the tendency to pay attention only to information that confirms one’s own beliefs  
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Mental set   tendency to solve problems using procedures that worked before on similar problems  
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Cognitive dissonance   a state of tension that occurs when a person simultaneously holds two cognitions that are psychologically inconsistent or when a person’s belief is incongruent with his/her behavior  
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Justification of effort   the tendency of people to increase their liking for something they have worked hard for or suffered to attain  
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Critical thinking   thinking reflectively, and productively, and evaluating evidence  
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Creative thinking   the ability to think about something in novel and unusual ways, and to devise unconventional solutions to problems  
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Intelligence   an inferred characteristic of an individual, usually defined as the ability to profit from experience, acquire knowledge, think abstractly, act purposefully, or adapt to changes in the environment  
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Psychometric approach to intelligence   the measurement abilities, traits, and processes  
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g factor   a general intellectual ability assumed by many theorists to underline specific mental abilities and talents  
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Mental age (MA)   measure of mental development expressed in years  
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Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale   a standardized test that measures intelligence and cognitive abilities in children and adults, from age two through mature adulthood, also assists in the diagnosis of a learning disability, developmental delay, mental retardation or giftedness  
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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale   a standardized test that measures intelligence and cognition in adults 16-89, also used in diagnostics criteria for mental retardation and ADHD  
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Stereotype threat   burden of doubt and anxiety one feels about his or her performance due to negative stereotypes about his or her group  
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Triarchic theory of intelligence   analytical (comparing, analyzing, and evaluating), creative (inventing solution to new problems, transfer skills to new situations), practical (applying the things you know to everyday contexts)  
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Theory of multiple intelligence   theory by Howard Gardner that there are nine types of intelligence, or “frames of mind” and that everyone has these intelligences in varying degrees  
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Alfred Binet   developed the idea of mental age  
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Howard Gardner   theory of multiple intelligence  
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William Stern   devised the term IQ  
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Robert Sternberg   triarchic theory  
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David Wechsler   performance tasks  
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