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30 Cards in this Set
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Mental activity involved in understanding, processing , and communicating information is called ________ |
Cognition |
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Concepts are ______ categories used to group together objects, relations , quantities and abstractions |
Mental |
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Examples that best match the essential features of categories are called __________ |
Prototype |
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Algorithms are usually time consuming whereas _______ provide a more rapid solution when they work |
Heuristics |
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When we apply the solution of an earlier problem to a new but similar problem we are using an _________ |
Analogy |
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Experts use parallel processing when solving problems, whereas novices use ________ processing |
Serial |
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The tendency to solve new problems with an approach that solved similar problems in the past is called a __________ |
Mental state |
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_______ can be helpful in problem solving because it may keep us from pursuing unprofitable but persistent mental sets |
Incubation |
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Initial views or presumption create ________ that influence our problem solving skills |
Anchors |
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Whether one's decisions are correct or incorrect, most people tend to be ________ about them |
Overconfident |
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True language is distinguished from the communications systems of lower animals by infinite creativity, displacement, and __________ |
Semanticity |
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One's ability to share our past and talk about our future goals involves the _______ capacity of language |
Displacement |
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The _______ hypothesis predicts that speakers of different languages conceptualize the world differently |
Inborn |
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Crying, cooing, and babbling are prelinguistic activities that are _________ |
Linguistic relativity |
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The development of _________ vocalization by infants follow the order of crying, cooing, and babbling |
Prelinguistic |
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The fact that telegraphic speech is found in all cultures and all languages suggest that language may have some ________ components |
Genetic |
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Learning theories of language development emphasize the role of __________ and imitation |
Reinforcement |
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According to __________ theory, the inborn tendency to acquire language is called a language acquisition device |
Psycholinguistic |
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According to Charles Spearman, "g" refers to broad reasoning and ____________ ablilities |
Problem solving |
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Charles Spearman developed a statistical technique know as ________ |
Factor analysis |
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LL Thurstone identified nine specific factors of intelligence, which he called __________ |
Primary mental |
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According to Robert Sternberg, the three types of intelligence are analytical, _______ , and practical |
Creative |
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Tests of creativity often measure _________ in a persons thinking |
Flexibility |
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The Binet - Simon scale of intelligence yielded a score called the __________ |
Mental age |
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The Wechsler scales are made up of subtests grouped into _______ tasks and performance tasks |
Verbal |
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Intelligence tests developed specifically to reduce cultural bias are called _________ tests |
Culture free |
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An IQ score below 70 is to retarded as IQ score above 130 is to ___________ |
Very superior |
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Moderate _______ are generally found between the IQ scores of siblings, parents and their children, and fraternal twins |
Correlation |
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Biological parents are to genetic influence as adoptive parents are to _________ influences |
Environmental |
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Graduates of ________ intervention programs are more likely to graduate from high school |
Preschool |
