chapter 7 Flashcards
(19 cards)
Thinking
The cognitive rearrangement or manipulation of both informat from the environment and the symbols stored in long term memory
Images
Mental representation of a sensory experience
Concepts
Mental category that represents some common feature of many objects or events
Algorithms
Set of rules which will guarantee a solution to a problem
heuristics
Strategies
Elimination
Create a list and discard any choice That are wrong on don’t fit
Visualization
Draw the problem out as a diagram
Divergent thinking
Seeing many solutions to a problem
Convergent thinking
Start with a general problem and conclude with one possible right answer
Creativity
The ability to produce novel and unique socially valued ideas or objects
Insight
The sudden appearance of new ideas
Representativeness
Is the current situation similar to one encountered before?
Availability
The ease at which we remember things
Preparation
Formulating the problem and collecting all the facts and materials necessary for the solution
Incubation
Ideas interfering with the solution tend to fade
Illumination
The sudden appearance of new ideas
Revision
Modification of the solution is made, if necessary
Intelligence
The ability to learn and adapt to the environment
The skeels and dye experiment
The longitudinal study of 25 children divided into groups of 13 and 12
- 13 raised by older woman in nursing nome - 12 to remain in hospital to be raised by staff
