w10 - Personality, cognition, curiosity ... Flashcards
Openess use to be refered to as… ?
Factor V
What two descriptions were fused to produce openness
Intellect
&
Openness to experiecne
Maximal and typical performance, which one was seen as falling in ther relm of personalitity?
Typical performance.
What we usually do.
Facets of O/I are significantly correlated with … ?
Cognitive ability
Stronger for intellect
Cognitive ability can be broken down into 2 abilities, what are they?
Verbal and non-verbal abilities
Which abilities were predicted by intellect, and which by openness
Intellect: predicted both verbal and non-verbal ability
Openness: predicted only verbal ability
Cannot be explicated
Skills that can only be learned through task experience are known as ?
Procedural learning.
Serial Reaction Time is an example of ?
Procedual learning.
How is task performance measured for Serial Reaction Time?
Difference between average time to respond to probable trials vs improable trials
Explain double dissociation between openness and intellect.
Openness predicts: implicit learning, but not working memory
Intellect predicts: working memory, but not implicit learning
What can Learned Irrelevance be thought as?
A ‘gating’ mechanism.
We habituate to stimuli that are not important
What is one example of learned Irrelevance ?
It’s harder to learn things about familiar stimuli compared to novel stimuli
What is the relationship between O/I and Learning Irrelevance?
O/I sees people continue to notice stimuli as novel.
O/I predicts decreased learned irrelevance
Relationship between O/I and Inattentional Blindness
Less suseptability to inattentional blindness
What is divergent thinking ?
Used to measure creativity
Generating multiple possible solutions through insight and intuition
