Perception

Question 1

Perceptual blindness

Answer 1

inability to see something in plain sight, because you are attending another stimulus

Question 2

Exemplar-based reasoning theory

Answer 2

Concept grouped into category based on its degree of similarity to an exemplar, specific remembered instance that is most typically thought of

Question 3

Prototype theory

Answer 3

Concept is grouped into category based on degree of similarity to prototype, ideal or average model based on what has been previously encountered

Question 4

Theory-based view of meaning

Answer 4

concept placed into category based on general idea constructed from experience. Cannot be described in 3-4 words but require longer more detailed explanation as to why it fits

Question 5

Feature-based theory

Answer 5

States that concepts are placed into categories based on defining theories

Question 6

Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences

Answer 6

Eight: linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalist

Question 7

Chomsky view of language

Answer 7

Innate skill for which people are predisposed, nativist

LAD language acquisition device

Question 8

Scaffolding

Answer 8

Use of superior language by a parent to a child to help them attain language faster

Question 9

Recuperation theory of sleep

Answer 9

Awakeness disrupts homeostasis, sleep restores it