Chapter 7 definitions
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| show | the branch of psychology that focuses on mental processes such as thinking, problem solving, decision making, and use of language
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| show | the process of mentally representing and manipulating information
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| show | a mental picture or representation of an object or event- help us perform cognitive tasks- remembering directions, creative solutions to puzzling problems
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| Concepts | show 🗑
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| Logical Concepts | show 🗑
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| Natural Concepts | show 🗑
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| show | a form of thinking focused on finding a solution to a particular problem
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| Algorithm | show 🗑
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| Heuristic | show 🗑
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| Mental Set | show 🗑
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| Functional Fixedness | show 🗑
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| Decision Making | show 🗑
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| show | biased ways of thinking that hamper a person’s ability to make rational or sound choices
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| show | the tendency to maintain allegiance to an initial hypothesis despite strong evidence to the contrary
o Place greater weight on information that confirms our prior beliefs than disputes it
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| show | a rule of thumb for making a judgement that assumes a given sample is representative of the larger population from which it is drawn
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| show | the tendency to judge events as more likely to occur when information pertaining to them comes readily to mind
o A particular brand because you recall it from TV
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| show | originality of thought associated with the development of new, workable products or solutions to problems
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| Divergent Thinking | show 🗑
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| show | the attempt to narrow down a range of alternatives to converge on the one correct answer to a problem
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| Analogy | show 🗑
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| Conceptual Expansion | show 🗑
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| Language | show 🗑
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| Grammar | show 🗑
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| Phonemes | show 🗑
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| Morphemes | show 🗑
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| show | the rules of grammar that determine how words are ordered within sentences or phrases to form meaningful expressions
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| Semantics | show 🗑
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| Language Acquisition Device | show 🗑
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| show | the proposition that the language we use determines how we think and how we perceive the world (does not have merit anymore)
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| Intelligence | show 🗑
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| Alfred Binet | show 🗑
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| Mental Age | show 🗑
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| Intelligence Quotient (IQ) | show 🗑
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| Wechsler Scale | show 🗑
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| show | the standards used to compare an individual’s performance on a test with the performance of others
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| show | the process of establishing norms for a test by administering the test to large numbers of people who constitute a standardization sample
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| show | the stability of test scores over time
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| show | subjects are given a parallel form of the test
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| show | the degree to which a test measures what it purports to measure
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| show | the degree to which test scores accurately predict future behavior or performance
• IQ can also predict long term health and longevity and job performance
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| Dyslexia | show 🗑
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| show | a generalized deficit or impairment in intellectual or social skills (IQ 70 & below)
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| show | the practice of placing children with special needs in a regular classroom environment
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| Gifted | show 🗑
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| Primary Mental Abilities | show 🗑
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| Primary Mental Abilities Test | show 🗑
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| Multiple Intelligences | show 🗑
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| Linguistic | show 🗑
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| Musical | show 🗑
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| Spatial | show 🗑
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| show | ability to control bodily movements and manipulate objects effectively
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| Interpersonal | show 🗑
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| Intrapersonal | show 🗑
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| Naturalist | show 🗑
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| show | Sternberg’s theory of intelligence that posits three aspects of intelligence: analytic, creative and practical
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| show | is the kind of intelligence measured by traditional intelligence tests (comes into play when you analyze familiar problems, break them down and develop strategies to solve them)
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| show | allows us to invent new ways of solving unfamiliar problems
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| Practical Intelligence | show 🗑
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| Heritability | show 🗑
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| Backward-working heuristic | show 🗑
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| show | we evaluate our current situation and compare it with the end results we want to achieve
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| Creating Sub Goals | show 🗑
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