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