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Cognition |
The mental activity of thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating info |
Cog meand head nition means to work |
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Prototypes |
A category is ideas used to organize thoughts and memories
When something does not for into our mental categories we discriminate against it. These fail us when our description of a category is confused or blurry |
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Algorithms |
The step-by-step formula for a guaranteed solution to a problem |
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Concepts |
Creating mental groupings of thoughts objects and people to simplify thinking |
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Heuristic |
The "short-cut" way of thinking. Issuing quick judgement to make a decision |
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Insight |
A "eurica" moment. An sudden pulse of understanding the solution to a problem. Show socks of brain activity I the rival and temporal lobes |
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Confirmation bias |
The tendancy to seek information that favors a claim you have already discovered. Instead, the best way of thinking is to find informtion that tries your claim |
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Mental set |
Approaching a problemwith a fixed mindset. |
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Available heuristic |
Bashing a decision the likely goods on an event. This often messe up or judgement of people There's an 80% chance of rain so you're going to bring an umbrella |
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Overconfidence heuristic |
An impairment of judgement based on how well we think we cando something versus how well we can actually do it. Often occurs on tests r barely study for. Increases our chances of being happy with ore decision |
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Belief Preservation |
The tenancy to hold onto old beliefs when presented with new info. Christianity and evolution |
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Framing Heuristic |
The way something is spoken of phrased often changes off judgement of it. Advertisements ficus heavily obvious this way of thinking when creating slogans |
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Creativity |
The ability to produce ideas y'at ate both new and valuable solutions. |
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Convergent Thinking |
Cutting down available options until arriving at a definite solution. |
Solving a multiple choice question is this |
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Divergent Thinking |
Expanding the number of possible solutions |
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Intellegence |
The ability to learn from new experiences, solve problems, and use knowledge to arrive at a new equilibrium |
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Spearman's Intellegence Factor |
There is only a general definition of Intellegence |
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Gardner's 8 Intelligences |
There are 8 difference assessments of Intellegence and each had unique biological basics and developments |
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Sternberg's 3 Intelligence |
There are 3 variations of Intellegence Analytical: academic smarts Creative: adapting to new situations Practice: having street smarts a and handling everyday tasks |
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Aptitude v. Achievement |
Focusing on tree ability for something to develop versus the skill set today someone already has. |
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Mental Age |
The level of academic performance one has in association with their chronological age. This creates one's IQ IQ= mental age/chronological age *100 |
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A Good test must include |
Standardization: a common "normal" to compair scores to Reliability: getting the same type of score no matter who takes it Validity: the test does what it's suppose to do |
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A Good test must include |
Standardization: a common "normal" to compair scores to Reliability: getting the same type of score no matter who takes it Validity: the test does what it's suppose to do |
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A Good test must include |
Standardization: a common "normal" to compair scores to Reliability: getting the same type of score no matter who takes it Validity: the test does what it's suppose to do |
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Crystalized Intellegence |
Accumulative knowledg relayed to vocabulary and such which grows with age |
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Fluid Intellegence |
Our ability to use reason and logic quickly and to think abstractly that decreases with she after age 20 We loose recall memory and processing speed slows. Anxiety, depression, and Amber clouds ourb judgement less the older we get |
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Sensory overload |
Result of overstimulation in early development |
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Under simulation |
Lower cognitive skill |
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