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Week 4 Flashcards

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What does the linguistic relatively hypothesis state

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Our perception of the world is determined by the language we speak

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Give examples of how language affects culture

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Languages with more personal pronouns have more individualistic cultures

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What experiment did Hyde do and what conclusion did she come to

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Made up a stories for children to read and the only difference between the stories are pronouns and the kids said the competence of the wudgemaker character was lower when it was a female, concluding that children had gender sterotypes

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What conclusion did experiments on the perception of time come to

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That spatial displays affect language and thought

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What is thinking

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Mentally manipulating words and images to solve problems, form concepts, and make decision

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What are concepts

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A mental representation that groups or categories share features with other events, objects, or stimuli

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What are the three processes that explain transition from built-in schemes to complex mental schemes

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Assimilation, accommodation, and equilibration

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What is assimilation

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Using existing schemes to make sense of events or experiences

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What is accommodation

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Changing a scheme as a result of new info

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What is equilibration

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The process of balancing assimilation and accommodation to make schemes that suit an environment

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What is the sensorimotor stage

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Occurs from birth to two years and kids use sensory and motor schemes to act on the world

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What is the preoperational stage

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From 2-7 years old, children acquire symbolic schemes such as language and fantasy and they use this to think and communicate

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What is the concrete operational stage

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From 7-11 years old, children begin to logically problem solve

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What is the formal operational stage

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After 11 years old, adolescents begin to think logically about abstract ideas and hypothetical situations

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What is family resemblance theory

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Members of a category have features that are exhibited in other members but not all

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What is prototype theory

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People make category judgements to by comparing new instances to the categories prototype. The prototype is the best or most typical member of agroup

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What is exemplar theory

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We make category judgements by looking at other memories within that category

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What is category-specific deficit

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An inability to recognize objects that belong to a category but may recognize objects outside the category

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Where is category-specific processing

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Different categories are localized in different areas

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Rationale choice theory

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We make decisions by how likely something is to happen, judging the value of the outcome, and multiplying it by 2

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What is availability bias

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We tend to rely on info that is readily available to us

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What is the conjunction fallacy

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People believing that two events are more likely to happen together than one on it’s own

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What is the representativeness heuristic

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A mental shortcut that is made by making a probability judgement associating an object with a prototype of that object or event

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What are advantages of heuristics

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  • We excel at making prototype judgment

- We excel at making classification judgments based on similarity to prototypes

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What is a disadvantage to a heuristic

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We have a lot of difficulty judging probability

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What are framing effects

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When people provide different answers for the same problem based on how its presented

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What is a sunk-cost fallacy

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People make a decision based off of investment.

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What is problem solving

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The thought process by which a person overcomes an obstacle to reach a goal

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What is trial and error

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Trying attempts over and over until one works

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What is the difference between solutions to insight vs solution to non insight problems

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Solutions to non-insight problems tend to be incremental while solutions to insight problems are spontaneous

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What is algorithm

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A problem solving procedure that assures a solution if done probably. Inefficient

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What is a heuristic

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Guides problem solving but does not solve it. Efficient

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What is a mental-set

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A particular problem solving strategy that works well in the past but interferes in solving a problem needing a different strategy

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Functional fixedness

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Failing to understand an object use in a certain way can solve a problem

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