Exam III Flashcards
The way in which info is processed and manipulated and remembering thinking and knowing
Cognition
Mental categories that are used to group objects, events, and characteristics
Concept
A fundamental ideal or principle that serves as a building block for understanding, human behavior and mental processes
Basic concepts
Mental representation of an object or concept that people use to categorize and understand the world
Prototype
The mental activity of transforming info into conclusions
Reasoning
The ability to view issues from multiple perspectives
Dialectical thinking
Thinking that produces many solutions to the same problems
Divergent thinking
An all purpose ability to do well on cognitive tasks to solve problems and to learn from experience
Intelligence
What did IQ exams favor?
Urban environments, white, and middle-class
The extent to Wichita feels a consistent reproducible measure of performance
Reliability
What is standard IQ
85-100
What is giftedness
130 or higher
What is intellectual disability?
0-50
The tendency to search for info that supports rather than refuse one’s ideas
Confirmation bias
Tendency to report falsely after the fact that one accurately predicted an outcome
Hindsight bias
Prediction about the probability of an event based on the ease of recalling or imagining similar events
Availablity heuristic
Failing to solve a problem as a result of fixation on a things usual functions
Example needing to hammer a nail but using shoe due to a lack of hammer
Functional fixedness
Reasoning for me, general case that is known to be true to a specific instance
Deductive reasoning
What does AI lack?
Creativity
Set a factors or a force that moves people to behave feel and think the way they do
Motivation
A genetically influenced weight range for an individual maintained by biological mechanisms that regulate food
The way you stay when you were making no effort to lose or gain weight
Setpoint theory
Hardly eats anything to be thin
Anorexia
Over eating or binging followed by forced vomiting
Bulimia
Stems from external usually learned through environment
Extrinsic
Comes with from within a person internal satisfaction
Intrinsic
Desire to become creative
Actualization
Self-esteem, reputation and self-respect
Esteem
Desire for friendship, mate, or children
Belonging
Protection and stability
Safety
Food, water, and oxygen
Physiological
Commitment, passion, and intimacy
Love triangle theory
Performance is best under conditions of moderate arousal rather than either lower or higher arousal
Theory of motivation
Ventromidial reduces hunger and lateral stimulates eating/interest in food
Hypothalamus
The practice of managing feelings and emotional displays in response to job requirements
Emotion work
Feeling or effect that involves physiological arousal, conscious experience and behavioral expression
Emotion
Social/cultural rules/norms that regulate when where and and how a person may express/suppress emotions
Example men shouldn’t cry
Display rule
