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chapter 9 Flashcards

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cognition

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all mental activities assoicated with thinking, knowing, remebering, and communication

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metacognition

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cognition about our cognition; keeping track of and evaluating and our mental processes

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concepts

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a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
-similar to schema

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prototype

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mental image or best example of a category
-matching new items to a prototype provides a quick and easy method for sorting items into categories
-helps make decisions

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algorithm

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a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem
-very time consuming
-step by step procedure
-ex: walk and look through every shelf to find an octopus

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heuristics

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a simple thinking strategy-a mental shortcut-that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently
-more speedier, but also more error prone

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insight

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a sudden realization of a problem’s solution; contrats with strategy-based solutions
-not strategy-based solution but rather a sudden flash of inspiration that solves a problem
-Aha moment!

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confirmation bias

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tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence
-predisposes us to verify rather than challenge our hypothesis
-ex: someone does something bad and seeing the good in it

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mental set

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tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past
-example of fixation

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intuition

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an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning
-use unconscious knowledge

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representative heuristic

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judging the likelihood of events in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead us to ignore other relevant information
-based on streotypes

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availability heuristic

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judging the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we presume such events as common

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overconfidence

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tendency to be more confident that correct- to overestimate accuracy of our beliefs and judgements

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belief preseverance

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clinging to one’s initial beliefs after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited
-pay attention to info we agree to and ignore evidence that proves that the belief is wrong

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Framing

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the way an issue is posed; how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgments

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intuition is what?

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-implicit knowledge
-adaptive, enabling quick reactions
-huge (constantly affect our judgements

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creativity

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the ability to produce new and valuable ideas
-supported by: ability to learn, intelligence, and working memory

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convergent thinking

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narrowing the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution
-1 solution

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divergent thinking

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expands the number of possible problem solutions; creative thinking that diverges in different directions
-multiple solutions

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Robert Sternberg proposed

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5 ingredients to creativity:
1. Expertise (well developed knowledge; min. of 10 years)
2. imaginative thinking (divergent thinker)
3. Venturesome personality (determined personality; wants new experiences; challenges)
4. Intrinsic motivation (motivated by what you want to do)
5. creative environment (open office format, bean bags, free snacks)

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Why do we think animals have cognitive skills?

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-animals use concepts, numbers, and tools
-transmit learning from one generation to the next
-show insight, self-awareness, altruism, cooperation, and grief

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Language

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our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning
-used to transmit knowledge from one generation to the next

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Phonemes

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the smallest distinctive sound units in a language
-ex: sounding out words

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Morpheme

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smallest language units that carry meaning
-combine two or more phonemes
-few morpheme are phonemes

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Grammar

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language’s set of rules that enable people to communicate

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semantics

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deriving meaning from sounds

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syntax

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ordering words into sentences

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Productive language: Babbling stage

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-begins at 4 months
-spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language

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Productive language: One-word stage

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-from about age 1 to 2
-child speaks mostly in single words

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Productive language: two-word stage

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-beginning at about age 2
-a child speaks mostly in two-word statements
-use telegraphic speech

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telegraphic speech

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-child speaks like a telegram using mostly nouns and verbs
-ex: “go car”

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Receptive language

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infants ability to understand what is said to them begins around 4 months

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production language

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infants ability to produce words begins around 10 months

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Critical periods

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childhood is a critical period for mastering certain aspects of language

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deafness and language developement

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-children born to hearing, nonsigning parents typically do not experience language during their early years
-natively deaf children who learn signing after age 9 do not learn sign language, master basic words, or become as fluent as native singers
-late learners show less right hemisphere brain activity in areas related to sign language

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aphasia

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impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca’s area (impairing speaking) or to Wernicke’s area (impairing understanding)

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Broca’s area

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-frontal lobe, left hemisphere
-helps control language expression by directing the muscle movements involved in speech

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wernicke’s area

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-controls language reception
-brain area involved in language comprehension and expression
-in left temporal lobe

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animal language processing

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-some have the basic language skill
-can learn difference between words and nonwords
-sound different alarm cries for different predators

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Linguistic determinism

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whorf’s hypothesis that language determines the way we think
-people think differently in different languages
-bilingual parents often switch languages to express emotions
-bilingual children exhibit enhanced social skills by being better able to shift to understand another’s perspective

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linguistic relativism

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the idea that language influences the way we think

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