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| mental activities involved in acquiring, retaining, and using knowledge | ||
| the manipulation of mental representations of information in order to draw inferences and conclustions | ||
| a mental representation of objects or events that are not physically present | ||
| a mental category of objects or ideas based on properties they share | ||
| a mental category that is formed by learning the rules of features that define it | ||
| a mental category that is formed as a result of everyday experience | ||
| the most typical instance of a particular concept | ||
| individual instances of a concept or category, held in memory | ||
| thinking and behavior directed toward attaining a goal that is not readily available | ||
| a problem solving strategy that involves attempting different solutions and eliminating those that do not work | ||
| a problem solving strategy that involves following a specific rule, procedure, or method that inevitably produces the correct solution | ||
| a problem solving strategy that involves following a general rule of thumb to reduce the number of possible solutions | ||
| the sudden realization of how a problem can be solved | ||
| coming to a conclusion or making a judgment without conscious awareness of the thought processes involved | ||
| the tendency to view objects as functioning only in their usual or customary way | ||
| the tendency to persist in solving problems with solutions that have worked in the past | ||
| a strategy in which the likelihood of an event is estimated on the basis of how readily available other instances of the event are in memory | ||
| a strategy in which the likelihood of an event is estimated by comparing how similar it is to the prototype of the event | ||
| belief bias effect, confirmation bias, fallacy of positive instances, overestimation effect, thinking critically about the evidence | ||
| a system for combining arbitrary symbols to produce an infinite number of meaningful statements | ||
| the hypothesis that differences among languages cause differences in the thoughts of thier speakers | ||
| the study of animal learning, memory, thinking, and language; also called comparative cognition | ||
| the global capacity to think rationally, act purposefully, and deal effectively with the environment | ||
| a measurement of intelligence in which an individual['s mental level is expressed in terms of the average abilities of a given age group | ||
| a measure of general intelligence derived by comparing an individual's score with the scores of others in the same age group | ||
| a test designed to measure a person's level of knowledge, skill, or accomplishment in a particular area | ||
| a test designec to assess a person's capacity to benefit from education or traingin | ||
| the adminitstration of a test to a largek representtative sample of people under uniform conditions foor the purpose of establishing norms. | ||
| a bell shaped distribution of individual differences in a normal population in which most scores cluster around the average score | ||
| the ability of a test to produce consistent results when administered on repeated occasions under similar conditions | ||
| the notion of a general intelligence factor that is responsible for a person's overall performance on tests of mental ability | ||
| sternberg's theory that there are three distinct forms of intelligence which are analytic, creative and practical | ||
| a psych predicament in which fear that you will be evaluated in terms of a bad stereotype lowers performance |
