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Chp. 8 - Thinking, Language, & Intelligence Flashcards

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Thinking: Cognition

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All mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

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Thinking: Concepts

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Mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas or people.

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Strategies used to solve problems: Algorithm

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A methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees a solution for a problem.

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Strategies used to solve problems: Heuristic

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A simple thinking strategy that allows one to make judgements and solve problems efficiently. Heuristics are speedier but more error-prone then algorithms.

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Strategies used to solve problems: Insight

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A sudden realization of the solution to a problem. It contrasts with strategy-based solutions.

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The AHA! Moment

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A burst of right temporal lobe EEG activity accompanied insight solutions to word problems.

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Obstacles to Problem Solving: Confirmation Bias

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Tendency to seek evidence for one’s ideas more eagerly then evidence against them.

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Obstacles to Problem Solving: Functional Fixation

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Inability to see a problem from a new perspective.

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Making decisions & judgements: Intuition

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Effortless, immediate, and automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning.

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Making decisions & judgements: Availability heuristic

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Judging the likelihood of an event based on it’s availability in memory.

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Making decisions & judgements: Representativeness heuristic

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Judging likelihood of a event in terms of how well it seems to represent, or match, a particular prototype.

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Making decisions & judgements: Overconfidence

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The tendency to be more confident than correct.

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Making decisions & judgements: Belief preseverance

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Holding beliefs & ignoring the evidence that proves them wrong.

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Making decisions & judgements: Framing

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The way an issue is posed.

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Creativity

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Ability to produce new and valuable ideas; requires a certain aptitude level. Aptitude tests require convergent thinking.

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Creativity: Convergent thinking

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Narrows he available solutions to determine the single best solution to a problem. Creativity tests require divergent thinking.

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Creativity: Divergent thinking

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Involves expanding the number of possible solutions. Creative thinking that moves away in different directions.

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What is language?

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Includes spoken, written, or signed words, and the ways one combines them to communicate meaning. Used to transmit a civilization’s knowledge from one generation to the next. Connects humans.

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Language development: Receptive language

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Ability of infants to understand what is said to and about them.

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Language development: Productive language

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Ability to produce words. Matures after receptive language.

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The brain and language

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Damage to any one or several areas of the brain’s cortex can impair language.

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The brain and language: Broca’s area

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the area in the left frontal lobe that directs the muscle movements involves in speech.

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The brain and language: Wernicke’s area

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The area in the left temporal love that deals with language comprehension and expression..

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Intelligence

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The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, a use knowledge to adapt to new stations.

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Intelligence: General Intelligence

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The general intelligence factor that underlines specific mental abilities.

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Intelligence: Savant syndrome

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Condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has exceptional specific still, such a in computation or drawing.

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Sternberg’s 3 Intelligences: Analytical intelligence

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School smart: Traditional academic problem solving.

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Sternberg’s 3 Intelligences: Creative intelligence

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Trailblazing smarts: Ability to generate novel ideas.

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Sternberg’s 3 Intelligences: Practical intelligence

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Street smarts: Skill at handling everyday tasks.

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Emotional Intelligence

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Ability to receive, understand, manage and use emotions.

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Assessing Intelligence: Intelligence test

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Assesses an individual’s mental aptitudes and compares them with those of other people, using numerical scores.

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Assessing Intelligence: Achievement test

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Assesses what a person has learned.

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Assessing Intelligence: Aptitude test

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Predicts a person’s future performance.

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3 tests of a good test: Standardization

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Defining uniform testing procedures and meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pressed group.

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3 tests of a good test: Reliability

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The extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, an alternative forms of the test, or on resisting.

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3 tests of a good test: Validity

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The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed.

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Validity: Content Validity

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Extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest.

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Validity: Predictive Validity

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Success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predicts.

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Nature & Nurture of Intelligence: Heritability

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Portion of variation among people in a group that can be attributed to.

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Crystal & Fluid Intelligence: Crystallized Intelligence

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Accumulated knowledge and verbal skills. Increased with age.

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Crystal & Fluid Intelligence: Fluid intelligence

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Ability to reason speedily and abstractly. Decreases with age.

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Group differences and similarities in intelligence test scores: Similarties

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Few gender differences in math computation and overall math performance.

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Group differences and similarities in intelligence test scores: Effects of culture

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Social expectations and opportunities matter. A small gender-related math gap is found in gender-equal cultures.

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Being Successful

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Differences are variations of human adaptability. Life’s great achievements result not only from abilities but also from motivation.

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