Ch.6 Flashcards
Cognitive actions performed on objects or ideas
Mental operations
Formal-operative thought characteristic on drawing conclusions contrary to the facts
Deductive reasoning
A strategy where information to be remembered is structured so that related information is placed together
Organization
Memory strategy where information is embellished to make more memorable
Elaboration
A person’s informal understanding of memory, including the ability to diagnose memory issues accurately, and to monitor how effect memory strategies are
Metamemory
A person’s knowledge and awareness of their cognitive processes
Metacognitive knowledge
Scientists that study measurements of people’s knowledge, skills, and abilities
Psychometricians
The ability to use one’s own and others’ emotions effectively for solving problems and living happy
Emotional intelligence
In Steinberg’s theory of successful intelligence, the ability to analyze problems and generate different solutions
Analytic ability
In Steinberg’s theory of successful intelligence, the ability to deal adaptively with novel situations and problems
Creative ability
In Steinberg’s theory of successful intelligence, the ability to know which solutions to a problem are likely to work
Practical ability
In intelligence thinking, a measure of children’s’ perfomance corresponding to the chronological age of those that have performance equal of the child’s
Mental age (MA)
Mathematical representation of how a person scores on an intelligence test in relations to the scores of their same age peers
Intelligence quotient (IQ)
Thinking that focuses one well-defined direction when finding a solution to a problem
Convergent thinking
Thinking in novel and unusual direction, fresh and unusual thinking
Divergent thinking
