Thinking, Language, and Intelligence Flashcards

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The mental activity involved in understanding, processing, and communicating information

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Cognition

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The tendency to think of an object in terms of its name or its familiar function. It can be similar to a mental set in that it makes it difficult to use familiar objects to solve problems in novel ways

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Functional Fixedness

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A general mental capability that involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly, and from experience

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Intelligence

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Individuals level of mental development

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Mental Age (MA)

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Age from birth

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Chronological Age (CA)

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Intelligence Quotient (IQ) =

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Mental Age (MA) / Chronological Age (CA) x 100

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The ability to perceive emotions in ourselves and others accurately

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Emotional Intelligence

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Theory that differentiates intelligence info specific modalities, rather than seeing intelligence as dominated by a single general ability by Howard Gardner

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Multiple Intelligence Theory

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The ability to generate novel and useful solutions to problems

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Creativity

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A thought process that attempts to generate multiple solutions to problems

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Divergent thinking

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The thought process that narrows in on the single best solution to a problem

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Convergent thinking

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A systemic procedure for solving a problem that works invariably when it is correctly applied

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Algorithms

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Rules of thumb that help us simplify and solve problems

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Heuristics

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