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Unit 7B Flashcards

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Single correct answer

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Convergent

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Multiple correct answers

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Divergent

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Mental activities associated with remembering, thinking, knowing, and communicating

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Cognition

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Mental grouping of objects, events, people, and ideas

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Concept

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Mental image or best example of a category

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Prototype

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What are the factors associated with creativity?

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Expertise, imaginative thinking, venturesome personality, intrinsic motivation, creative environment

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Methodical, logical, or rule procedure that guarantees solving a problem

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Alogrithm

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Simple, thinking strategy that allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently

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Heuristic

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Sudden realization of the solution to a problem

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Insight

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Ability to produce novel and valuable ideas

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Creativity

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Researched insight by using a chimpanzee

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Wolfgang Kohler

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Tendency to search for information that supports our perceptions and to ignore contradicting evidence

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Confirmation bias

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Inability to see a problem in a new perspective

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Fixation

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Tendency to approach a problem in one particular way

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Mental set

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Tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions

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Functional fixedness

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Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, match, particular prototypes

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Representativeness heuristic

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Estimating the likelihood in terms of their availability in memory

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Availability heuristic

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Tendency to be more confident that correct; to overestimate our beliefs and judgements

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Overconfidence

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Created the prospect theory

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Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman

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The way an issue is posed

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Framing

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Automatic feeling or thought

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Intuition

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Clinging to one’s initial conceptions after the bass on which they were formed has be discredited

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Belief perseverance

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What are the basic structural units of language?

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Phonomes, morphemes, grammar

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Spoken, written, or signed words and the way we combine them for communication

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Language

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Smallest, distinctive sound unit

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Phoneme

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Smallest unit that carries meaning

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Morpheme

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System of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others

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Grammar

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The study of meaning set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words and sentences

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Semantics

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Rules for combing words into grammatically sensible sentences

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Syntax

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During about 4 months, the baby speaks utter sounds

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Babbling stage

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About age 1 or 2, the child speaks mostly in single words

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One-word stage

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About age 2, the child mostly speaks 2 word statements

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Two word stage

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Early speech stage when a child speaks using nouns and verbs

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Telegraphic speech

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Believed that we learn language from association, imitation, and reinforcement

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BF Skinner

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Believed that given adequate nurture, language would naturally occur

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Noam Chomsky

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Language determines the way we think

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Linguistic determinism

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Language determines the way we think

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Benjamin Whorf

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