Language and Thought & Problem Solving - Chapter 8 Flashcards
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Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis
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- Language influences how we experience the world
- Categorical Perception:
- Faster and more accurate discrimination of stimuli that straddle a colour boundary
- Categorical Perception:
2
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Universalist View
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- Common repertoire of thought and perception that then influences all languages
- Languages guide what we pay attention to, then attention shapes our cognition
- Languages evolve along predictable lines
3
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Approaches to Solving Problems
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- Algorithms
- Heuristics
4
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Algorithms
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- Strategies based on following a series of rules
- Anagrams:
- IHCRA
- Anagrams:
5
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Heuristics
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Strategies that rely on our prior experiences
6
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Mental Set
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Can result from rote learning during problem solving with no deeper understanding of problem developed
7
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The Nine Dot Problem
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Connect all nine dots using only four straight lines and without lifting your pen off the paper
8
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Functional Fixedness
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Occurs when an individual can only think of an object’s most obvious function
