thinking, language and intelligence Flashcards
how to solve problems?
identify current situation
identify goal
sub-problems
routines
automaticity
fall into these automatic things when solving problems (ex. reading instructions)
fixation (mental set)
nine-dot problem, problem with fixation/trying to stay in the box
framing
language of a problem creates a way of thinking about it (ex. 93% fat free, not 7% fat)
hindsight bias
something becomes common sense once you know the correct answer
availability heuristic
judging the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness), we presume such events are common (ex. casinos with winning/loud and losing/quiet)
overconfidence
when you are more confident than correct, Dunning Kruger Effect
representativeness heuristic
judging the likelihood of events based of how well they seem to represent prototypes (small, slim, likes to read poetry is more likely a professor than truck driver)
confirmation bias
tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore contradictory evidence
belief preserverance
clinging to one’s initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited (ex. carp or no carp in lake)
how do we organize our thoughts?
prototype and schema
prototype
mental averages; a best example of a category to sort by (ex. prototypic dog, cat, professor, etc.)
schema
organizing information into categories than relationship among categories (liben and signorella with traditional vs. nontraditional photos)
phonemes
specific sounds of language (that - th, a, t)
morphemes
basic meaning units (suffix, prefix, anything that changes the meaning of a word) (strangers has 3 - strange, er, s)
Chomsky, LAD
Language Acquisition Device, helps us understand the structure of language/grammar; how child learn and process words
Lennerburg
critical period for language, 2yr to puberty, case study Genie is proof of this
active language acquisition is
biologically driven
who believed human language was nature
chomsky and lennerburg
who believed human language was nurture
skinner
3 language principles for Skinner
association, imitation, reinforcement
crying
from birth, to express needs
cooing
2-4 months, little vowel sounds and becoming more social
babbling
4-6 months, using harsh constants (b and d)
expressive jargon
towards end of first year, sounds like they made up their own language with no semantic content
first word
around 13 months, but really understand 100 words
holophrase
packing a whole sentence into one word (ex. doggy means the dog ate my homework)