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| _________ can be thought of as the mental activities involved in solving problems: thinking, lang, memory and intelligence |
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| People often use shortcuts called ______ (mental rule of thumb) as a way to solve a problem |
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| A problem solving method when you ask yourself how similar or representative one event (a course you might want to take) is of a class of events ( courses you like) |
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| another shortcut, ________ ______, involves judging the likelihood that an event will happen in terms of how readily you can bring an instance of it to mind. events that are more vivid or more recent would be judged as more likely to happen than those less vivid or recent |
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| the term ____ _____ refers to people's tendency to look for information that will support their beliefs. |
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| ______ _______ is the inability to see new uses for familiar objects |
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| language uses a set of rules called _____ that allow everyone using the language to make sense out of it in the same way |
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| the two most studied systems of linguistic rules are ______ rules for mapping morphemes (words that convey meaning) into ideas they represent, and _______ that are rules for combining morphemes in meaningful ways |
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| At age 4-6 months, babies enter the ____ stage during which they appear to practice making sounds used in their language |
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| At about age one, babies enter ____-_____ stage which lasts until 18 months, only speaking 1 word at a time |
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| when child speaks one word at a time and also makes gestures is called _____ speech |
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| the psychologist ______ tried to explain leaning language with operant conditioning. Conditioning can't account for how quickly children learn language and the novel ways they use it |
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Noam Chomsky
Language Acquisition Device |
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| Psychologist ________ ________ has claimed that children have a _____ ______ device, a universal built in mental system that steers us toward interpreting and using language |
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Short - Term Memory (aka working memory) |
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| _______ Memory is a fleeting awareness of whatever the senses have detected, if attended to, this info enters ____-_____ memory |
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| short term memory will be lost unless extra effort is expended to transfer it to ____-____ memory |
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| _______ strategies are deliberate, though sometimes automatic or unconscious, methods used for getting info into long term memory or keeping more info into short term mem |
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| ____ involves deliberate conscious repetition of info while _____ involves groping pieces of info into meaningful units |
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| _____________ is how well you solve problems |
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| _______ ________ a psychologist, was first to develop an intelligence test: a battery of questions about topics typically covered in French schools |
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| Binet's intelligence tests yielded a score that reflected the taker's ____ age |
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| Binet's Intelligence Age was incorporated into the new ______ ______: mental age divided by chronological age multiplied by 100 ( to eliminate decimal) |
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| Standardization or Norms based referencing |
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| ______ or _____ based referencing is how IQ test scores are statically manipulated |
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| ______ _______ labeled the general intelligence ______. the average IQ is 100 |
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| most who stuy intelligence subscribe to the theory that there are _____ intelligences, separate distinct problem solving abilities |
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| _____ Vs ______ biological genetic heritage vs environmental effects |
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