Unit 7 "Memory 2" [Cognitive Process]

Question 1

What are the 2 kinds of thinking?

Answer 1

Convergent and Divergent

Question 2

A type of thinking where you only think of “One” Solution

Answer 2

Convergent

Question 3

A type of thinking where you only think of “Many” Solution

Answer 3

Divergent

Question 4

A formula that goes through all of the positive solutions

Answer 4

Algorithm

Question 5

the sudden realization of a problem’s solution, “Aha moment”

Answer 5

Insight

Question 6

the “mental shortcut”

And explain why we use this?

Answer 6

Heuristic

- in order to make things easy and organized in our brain

Question 7

This is when we tend to only look for evidence that supports our belief and ignore the contradictory evidence

Answer 7

Confirmation BIas

Question 8

When we only see one thing with one use. (norm)

Answer 8

Fixation (functional fixedness)

Question 9

it’s when you continue new things, even if they don’t work anymore

Answer 9

Mental Set

Question 10

“automatic feeling/ thoughts” as contrasted w/ conscious reasoning.

Answer 10

Intuition

Question 11

What are the 2 types of Heuristics?

Answer 11

Availability Heuristics

Representativeness heuristics

Question 12

when people make a judgment just because it’s recently available in their mind.
Provide example

Answer 12

Availability heuristics

Not riding a bike since there was an accident last time regarding riding the bike.

Question 13

When people make a judgment based on a prototype that exists in the mind already(schema)
provide example

Answer 13

Representativeness heuristics

A guy wearing a tuxedo and carrying a briefcase= he must be a lawyer

Question 14

The belief that the odds will occur given the previous series of events.
Provide example

Answer 14

Gambler’s Fallacy

Ex. thinking it’s gonna be green since the blue one kept occurring for the last games

Question 15

When people are “super” biased on their beliefs

Answer 15

Overconfidence

Question 16

When people maintain their beliefs/opinions even in the face of contradicting evidence.

Answer 16

Belief Perseverance

Question 17

The way we phrase sentences is called____

How does this affect us

Answer 17

Framing, the way u frame things will have a huge impact whether it’s believable/ comfortable to your audience

Question 18

____ is a spoken, written way of how we communicate.

And _____ is its rule

Answer 18

language

grammar

Question 19

Explain Critical Period

Answer 19

A time where a species needs to learn a specific behavior/abilities

Question 20

What’s the smallest unit of sound in a language?

Answer 20

Phoneme

Question 21

What’s the smallest unit of sound w/ “meaning”?

Answer 21

Morpheme

Question 22

This is when you’re consciously being aware of your own language

Answer 22

Metalinguistic awareness

Question 23

when the language determines/controls our thought, and who researched it?

Answer 23

Linguistic Determinism

Whorf

Question 24

when language influences your thinking

Answer 24

Linguistic influence