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18 Cards in this Set
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What is the Adaptive Unconscious? What does it do? |
The automatic response that jumps to conclusions. Helps to make quick decisions, warns us of dangers and is basically a giant computer and quietly processes a lot to function properly |
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What was the Barghs studies of infulences of conceptual priming on behavior? |
The scrambled sentence test, where you make 4 word sentences as fast as you can where there is an underlying theme that can influence your behavior |
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What is the Implicit Association Test? |
We are ablr to make connections more quickly to pairs of ideas we are familiar with rather than pairs that are unfamiliar |
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What is Verbal Overshadowing? |
We tend to do worse when describing something you can picture in your head because you have to switch from right brained processes to to left brain processes |
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What is the ellsberg paradox? |
People perfer to take on risks when then know the odds, even if the odds are low |
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What is lexical access? |
Every word you hear or read brings up EVERY related word |
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What are Garden path sentences? |
Grammatically correct sentences that mislead you down an incorrect path |
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Dyslexia characteristics |
Extreme difficulty in reading and learning how to read |
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Differences in brocas vs. Wernickes apashia |
BROCA'S: anterior, think well, but cannot produce words, result from left frontal cortex lesions WERNICKE'S: posterior, cannot think well, but produce nonsense sentences, results from leasions in temporal or parietal cortex |
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Define Agrammatism |
The inability to produce or comprehend grammatical sentences |
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What is judgment and its 2 subcomponents? |
Judgement: the process we use to think about evidence, make inferences and reach conclusions INDUCTION AND DEDUCTION |
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Define induction |
A situation in which one begins with specific facts/observations and draws a conclusion |
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Define deduction |
A situation in which one begins with a general statement and figures out what specific claims resonably draw from it |
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Define availabilty heuristic |
A mental shortcut that helps making a decision based on how easy it brings something to mind |
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Define Confirmation bias |
We tend to accept, be alert, and more responsive to evidence that confirms our beliefs than evidence that challenge them. It is easier to process info that is consistant with our own beliefs |
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Name the 4 features of a problem |
A goal of what constitutes a solution A description of objects relavent to acheiving a solution A set of operations or allowable actions toward a solution A set of constraints not to be violated |
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Define mental set |
A tendency to repeat a solution process that has succeeded previously |
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Name the 4 steps in the creative process |
Preparation- formulating and beginning Incubation- setting aside Illumination- achieving insight Verification- checking solution |
