Chapter 7

Question 1

Protype

Answer 1

Instant/go to example of whatever catergory

Question 2

Concepts

Answer 2

A categories of objects or ideas that share something in common

Question 3

Cognition

Answer 3

The Mental activities involved in acquiring, retaining, and using knowledge.

Question 4

Heuristic

Answer 4

A mental shortcut to make it easier to make a decision

Question 5

Insight

Answer 5

Trying to figure something out thats not clicking then suddenly it clicks

Question 6

Functional fixedness

Answer 6

Fixated on what an object does, limited what you can do when thinking outside the box

Question 7

Mental set

Answer 7

Trying to do something that worked before, even though it may not work now

Question 8

Thinking

Answer 8

How we use knowledge

Question 9

Algorithm

Answer 9

A problem solving strategy that involves following a specific rule, procedure or method that inevitably produces the correct solution

Question 10

Availability heuristic

Answer 10

A strategy which the likelihood of an event is estimated on the basis of how readily available other instances of thr event are in memory

Question 11

Representativeness heuristic

Answer 11

A strategy in which the likelyhood of an event is estimated by comparing how similar it ia to the prototype of the event

Question 12

Linguistic relativity hypothesis/whorfian hypothesis

Answer 12

The hypothesis that differences among languages cause differences in the thoughts of their speakers

Question 13

Comprehensioj vocab

Answer 13

The words that are understood by an infant (larger then production)

Question 14

Production vocab

Answer 14

The words understood and can be spoken by an infant/child

Question 15

Animal cognition/ comparative cognition

Answer 15

The study of animal learning, thinking and language

Question 16

Mental age

Answer 16

A measurement of intelligence where the mental level is expressed in terms of the average abilities of a given age group

Question 17

Intelligence quotient/IQ

Answer 17

A measure of general intelligence derived by comparing an individuals score with the scores of others in the same age group

Question 18

Achievement test

Answer 18

A test desgined to measure a person’s level of knowledge, skill, or acomplishment in a particiular area

Question 19

Aptitude test

Answer 19

A test designed to assess a persons capacity to benefit from education or training

Question 20

Standardization

Answer 20

The administration of a test to a large, representative sample of peoppe under uniform conditions. To establish norms

Question 21

Normal curve/normal distribution

Answer 21

A bell shaped distribution of individual differences in a normal population in which most scores cluster around the average score

Question 22

Validity

Answer 22

The ability of a test to measure what it is intended to measure

Question 23

Factor/general intelligence

Answer 23

The notion of a general intelligence factor that is responsible for a person’s overall performance on tests of mental ability

Question 24

Triarchic theory of intelligence (robert stern)

Answer 24

Theory that there are three distinct forms of intelligence: analytic, creative, and practical

Question 25

Heritability

Answer 25

The percentage of variation within a given population that is due to heredity

Question 26

Creative intelligence

Answer 26

Be able to use what you know to deal with new situations. And create new things

Question 27

Practical and analytical

Answer 27

Adapting to yoru enviroment/ smart

Question 28

Gardners theory about 8 types

Answer 28

Lingustic, logical, naturalist, musical, spatial, bodily, inter/intra personal

Question 29

Additive model

Answer 29

You make a lost based on what YOU think is most important to make a decision. Then assign points based on whats most important to least important

Question 30

Additive model

Answer 30

You make a lost based on what YOU think is most important to make a decision. Then assign points based on whats most important to least important