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Unit 7B Thinking, Problem Solving, Creativity, and Language Flashcards

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Cognition

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The mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

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What does a cognitive psychologist do?

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They study the logical and sometimes illogical ways in which we create concepts, solve problems, make decisions, and judgments

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Schema/Concept

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A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people (Ex. When I think of dogs that includes all diff breeds)

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Prototypes

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Mental images or best examples of a category

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Algorithms

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A methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem (Ex. The step-by-step procedure to solving a math problem)

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Heuristics

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A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently

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What are 2 differences between algorithms and heuristics?

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Heuristics are faster but more error prone than algorithms

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Insight

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A sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem; it contrasts w strategy-based solutions

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Creativity

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The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas

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Convergent thinking

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Determining one correct answer

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Divergent thinking

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Determining many uses for one thing (this is easiest for creative ppl)

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What did Robert Sternberg say were the five components of creativity?

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  1. Expertise
  2. Imaginative thinking skills
  3. A venturesome personality
  4. Intrinsic motivation
  5. A creative environment
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Confirmation bias

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A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence

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Fixation

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The inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set

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Mental set

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A tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past

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Functional fixedness

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The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving (Ex. You might view a thumbtack as something that can only be used to hold paper to a cork board)

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Representative heuristics

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Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead us to ignore other relevant information

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Availability heuristic

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Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because you saw them on the news a couple times) we presume they are common

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Overconfidence

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The tendency to be more confident than correct - to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgment

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Belief perseverance

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

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Intuition

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An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning

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Framing

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The way an issue is posed; how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgments

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Language

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Our spoken, written, or signed words and the way we combine them to communicate meaning

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Phonemes

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In language, the smallest distinctive sound unit (Ex. B-A-T (3), CH-A-T (3))

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Morphemes

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I’m language, the smallest units that carry meaning; may be a word or part of a word, like a prefix (Ex. Bat, pre-, -ed, etc)

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Grammar

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A system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others

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Semantics

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The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language; also, the study of meaning (Ex. Semantic rule tells us that adding -ed to the word laugh means that it happened in the past)

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Syntax

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The rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language (Ex. In English syntactical rule says that adjectives come before nouns; White House. In Spanish it’s the opposite; casa blanca.)

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About how old are babies when they start babbling?

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4 months

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One-word stage

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The stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words

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Telegraphic speech

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An early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram - “go car” - using mostly nouns and verbs

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Language activation device

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A “switch box” that needs to be turned either “on” or “off” for us to understand and produce language

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Linguistic determinism

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Whorf’s hypothesis that language determines the way we think (Ex. A tribe has no past tense in there language, so they must not think about the past)

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What increases our overconfidence?

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Heuristics, confirmation of beliefs, and the inclination to explain failures

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Exaggerated Fear

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The opposite of having overconfidence is having an exaggerated fear about what may happen. Such fears may be unfounded. (Ex. The 9/11 attacks led to a decline in air travel due to fear)

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Receptive Language

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Is the child’s ability to comprehend speech. Begins to mature before their productive language, which is their ability to produce words.

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Productive Language

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Is a child’s ability to produce words (improves with improvement of receptive language)

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How did BF Skinner (Behavioral Psychology) think children acquire language?

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  • through operant learning
  • language acquisition is association, imitation, and reinforcement
  • grammar and sentence structure are learned through positive and negative reinforcement
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How did Noam Chomsky (Linguist) think children acquire language?

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  • we learn language too quickly for it to be through reinforcement and punishment
  • inborn universal language acquisition device + grammar
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Universal Grammar

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  • all human languages have the same grammatical building blocks, such as nouns and verbs, subjects and objects, negations and questions
  • we all start speaking mostly in nouns
  • we all follow language development stages
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Critical Period

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Children can’t perform that same statistical analysis and intense language acquisition through our whole life

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Mental Practice

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Repeatedly imagining achieving your goals under several different conditions

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Retroactive Interference

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Occurs when new information makes it harder to recall something you learned earlier

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Broca’s Area

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Associated with speech production and articulation

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