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Chapter 9: Thinking and intelligence Flashcards

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What is cognitive psychology?

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The study of perception, learning, memory, and thought. How people tend to acquire, transform, store, and retrieve knowledge.

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What are cognitions?

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Mental processes involved in gaining knowledge.

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What are 4 elements of cognitions?

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  1. Concepts
  2. Propositions
  3. Cognitive schemas
  4. Metal Image
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What are concepts?

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Mental categories used to classify events and objects. Includes prototypes.

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What are prototypes?

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Standard and typical examples to define fuzzy concepts.

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What are propositions?

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Units of meaning which are composed of concepts to express single ideas.

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What are cognitive schemas?

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Integrated mental networks of knowledge, beliefs and expectations.

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What are mental images?

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A mental picture which mirrors the thing it represents.

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What are two levels of Consciousness in thought?

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  1. subconscious processes

2. nonconscious processes

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What are subconscious processes?

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Processes which occur outside of conscious awareness and are only accessible when necessary (psychoanalytic theory)

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What are nonconscious processes?

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Not available to conscious awareness.

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What are two types of nonconscious processes?

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Implicit learning and mindlessness.

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What is implicit learning?

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Acquiring knowledge without awareness and being able to explain what you have learned.

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What is mindlessness?

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Operating on autopilot (e.g. being oblivious or stereotyping)

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What is reasoning?

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Drawing conclusions/ inferences from observations, facts, and assumptions.

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What are formal reasoning problems?

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Problems that are solved with established methods and have one single correct solution.

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What are informal reasoning problems?

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Problems that do not have a clearly correct solution.

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What is deductive reasoning?

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When a conclusion follows necessarily from certain premises. Premise is true then conclusion is true.

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What is inductive reasoning?

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When premises support conclusion but there is still a possibility that the conclusion is false.

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What are heuristics?

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Rules of thumb that suggest a course of action to guide problem-solving but does not necessarily guarantee an optimal solution.

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What is dialectic reasoning?

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Process in which opposing facts are weighed and compared in order to determine the best solution/ resolve differences. (pros & cons)

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What stages are there in the development of reflective judgement? (3)

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  1. Pre-reflective
  2. Quasi-reflective
  3. Reflective
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What are pre-reflective stages?

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Assumptions that the correct answer can be obtained through the senses of from authorities. (children rely on parents)

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What are quasi-reflective stages?

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Stages that recognize limits to absolute certainty, realize judgement should be supported by reasons, yet pay attention to evidence that confirms beliefs (confirmation bias)

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What are reflective stages?

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Stages that consider evidence from a variety of sources and reason dialectically.

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What are 7 barriers to rational reasoning?

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  1. Exaggerating improbable (affect and availability heuristic)
  2. Avoiding loss (framing effect)
  3. Fairness bias
  4. Hindsight bias
  5. Confirmation bias
  6. Mental Sets
  7. Need cognitive consistency
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What is the affect heuristic?

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Tendency to consult one’s emotions instead of estimating the probability of something occurring objectively.

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What is the availability heuristic?

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Tendency to judge the probability of a type of event by how easy it is to think of examples. (plane crash in 9/11 stopped people from taking planes even though more deaths occur from car crashes)

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What is the framing effect?

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The tendency to respond more cautiously to things that are negatively framed in order to minimize losses.

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What is the fairness bias?

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A sense of fairness taking precedence over rational self-interest when making economic choices.

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What is the hindsight bias?

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Tendency to overestimate one’s own ability to have predicted something once the outcome of the event is already known.

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What is the confirmation bias?

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Tendency to look for/ inly pay attention to information that support one’s own beliefs.

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What are mental sets?

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Tendency to solve problems using procedures that worked for previous problems.

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What is cognitive dissonance?

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A state of tension that occurs when a person holds two cognitions that are psychologically inconsistent, or when a person’s own belief is incongruent with their behaviour.

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When would one try to reduce cognitive dissonance?

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  1. When you must justify a choice that you made freely
  2. When you need to justify behaviour that conflicts with your view of yourself
  3. When you need to justify effort put into a decision of choice.
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What is intelligence?

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An inferred characteristic of an individual that usually defines the ability to profit from experience, acquire knowledge, think abstractly, act purposefully, or adapt to changes in the environment.

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How is intelligence measured? (2)

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Using psychometric or cognitive approaches.

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What is the psychometric approach to intelligence?

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Approach measures mental abilities, traits, and processes.

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What is factor analysis?

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Statistical method for analyzing intercorrelations among measures or test scores.

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What is the “g factor”?

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A general intellectual ability assumed by many theorists to underlie specific mental abilities and talents.

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What is mental age (MA)?

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The relative intellectual development relative to that of other children.

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Which scientists examined mental age?

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Binet (developed first test to pick out which children were not doing as well) and Simon..

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What was an early scoring system devised to yield IQ?

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MA/CA x 100

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Why didn’t the early way of measuring IQ work well?

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Doesn’t apply to adults.

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How is IQ distributed on a graph?

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“normally” on bell shaped curve.

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What percentage of people have an IQ between 85-115?

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68%

47
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What percentage of people have an IQ between 55-145?

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97.5%

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What are 3 types of IQ tests?

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  1. Standford Binet Intelligence test -> Lewis Terman brought to North America
  2. Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
  3. Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)
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What is Stereotype threat?

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A burden of doubt a person feels about their own performance due to negative stereotypes about parts of their identity and their groups abilities.

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What is the cognitive approach to intelligence?

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Assumes that there are many kinds of intelligence and emphasizes strategies people use when thinking about a problem and arriving at a solution. Reject “g factor”.

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What is Sternberg’s Triarchic theory of intelligence?

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Emphasizes information processing strategies, the ability to creatively transfer skill to new situations, and the practical application of intelligence.

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What are Sternberg’s 3 aspects of intelligence?

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  1. Componential-analytic
  2. Experiential- creative
  3. Contextual- practical
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What are Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences?

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  1. Linguistic
  2. Logico-mathematical
  3. Musical
  4. Spatial
  5. Bodily-kinesthetic
  6. Naturalist
  7. Interpersonal (awareness of others)
  8. Intrapersonal (self-aware)
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What is cognitive ethology?

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Study of cognitive processes in nonhuman animals.

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Can some animals anticipate events, plan, and coordinate activities with others?

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Yes.

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In Kohler’s study of the chimpanzee sultan, what did he discover?

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Sultan was able to think, plan, and problem-solve to get bananas down from a high location.

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What is ‘theory of mind’?

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A system of beliefs about the way one’s mind and the minds of others work. Some animals may have this.

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What is anthromorphism?

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The tendency to falsely attribute human qualities to nonhuman beings.

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What is anthropodenial?

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The tendency to think that humans have nothing in common with other animals.

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What is creativity?

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A measure of our divergent thinking.

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What tests the mental flexibility necessary for creativity?

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The Remote Associates Test.

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What personality characteristics are important for creativity?

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  1. Nonconformity
  2. Curiosity
  3. Persistence

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