Psychology Test 3

Front 1

Cognition

Back 1

Cognition is a term covering all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

Front 2

Categories/Hierachies/Prototype

Back 2

Dividing objects, events, ideas, or people into clusters/Smaller more detailed units/best examples of a category.

Front 3

Algorithms/Hierachies

Back 3

is a time-consuming but thorough set of rules or procedures that guarantees a solution to a problem/is a simpler thinking strategy that may allow us to solve problems quickly.

Front 4

Confirmation Bias/Fixation

Back 4

predisposes us to verify rather than challenge our hypotheses./such as mental set and functional fixedness, may leave us pursuing one way and prevent us from taking a new way to fix a problem.

Front 5

Representativeness/Availability

Back 5

leads us to judge the likelihood of things in terms of how they represent our prototype for a group of items/leads us to judge the likelihood of things based on how vivid they are or how readily they come to mind.

Front 6

Language/structural units

Back 6

our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them as we think and communicate.

Front 7

Advantage/disadvatage to overconfidence

Back 7

overconfident people tend to live happier lives, make difficult decisions more easily, and seem more credible/using our easy heuristics we can blind ourselves to error by being to quick.

Front 8

Language acquisition
5 of them

Back 8

Babbling to sound--babbling resembles house hould language--1 word stage--2 word stage--language rapidly increasing

Front 9

5 cognitive skills from sharing apes and humans

Back 9

Creat and use tools,form concepts, theory of mind, transmit culteral innovations, display insight

Front 10

Phonemes/Morphemes/Grammar/Semantics/Syntax
Structural Units

Back 10

Basic units of sound/Elementary units of meaning/system of rules to understand others/Part of grammar which is a set of rules for deriving meaning/putting words into sentences