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| 9265493644 | Cognition | The process of taking in information, processing and storing it, and applying it. | 0 | |
| 9265493645 | Schema | A conceptual framework a person uses to make sense of the world; a folder or category in someone's mind. | 1 | |
| 9265493646 | Objects | Everything in a schema. | 2 | |
| 9265493647 | Prototype | The thing that most accurately represents your schema. | 3 | |
| 9265493648 | Propositions | A declarative sentence about your schema or something in it. | 4 | |
| 9265493649 | Assimulation | Assuming something belongs in a schema based on prior knowledge. (All birds have feathers so every creature with feathers must belong in the birds schema.) | 5 | |
| 9265493650 | Accommodation | Adding something new to a schema and changing the definition of that schema based on new knowledge. (Believing only fish swim and then seeing a penguin swim and learning it's a bird so changing your definition of bird and fish.) | 6 | |
| 9265493651 | Hueristics | Problem solving method that usually gives us a reasonably correct answer quickly, such as a rule of thumb. | 7 | |
| 9265493652 | Insight Thinking | When you stop focusing on a problem and the answer suddenly pops into your head. | 8 | |
| 9265493653 | Algorithms | Methods of answering a question that guarantees you'll get the right answer. | 9 | |
| 9265493654 | Representative Heuristic | Helps us make decisions based on how closely something resembles a prototype. | 10 | |
| 9265493655 | Availibility Heuristic | Making decisions based on what's most available or vivid in your mind. | 11 | |
| 9265493656 | Inductive Reasoning | A type of logic in which generalizations are based on a large number of specific observations. | 12 | |
| 9265493657 | Deductive Reasoning | A type of logic in which specific results are predicted from a general premise. | 13 | |
| 9265493658 | Confirmation Bias | A tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions. | 14 | |
| 9265493659 | Mental Set | The tendency to respond to a new problem in the manner used for a previous problem. | 15 | |
| 9265493660 | Functional Fixedness | The tendency to perceive an item only in terms of its most common use. | 16 | |
| 9265493661 | Framing | The way an issue is posed; how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgments. | 17 | |
| 9265493662 | Overconfidence | Tendency to overestimate our ability to make correct predictions. | 18 | |
| 9265493663 | Belief Bias | The tendency for one's preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning. | 19 | |
| 9265493664 | Hindsight Bias | The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it. | 20 | |
| 9265493665 | Belief Perseverance | Tendency to stick to our initial beliefs even when evidence contradicts them. | 21 | |
| 9265493666 | Phonemes | In language, the smallest distinctive sound unit. | 22 | |
| 9265493667 | Morphemes | The smallest units of meaning in a language. | 23 | |
| 9265493668 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 24 | |
| 9265493669 | Grammar | A set of rules that specify how the units of language can be combined to produce meaningful messages. | 25 | |
| 9265493670 | Semantics | Meaning of words and sentences. | 26 | |
| 9265493671 | Pragmatics | Ways of communicating meaning other than words. (Body language, tone, etc.) | 27 | |
| 9265493672 | 3 Stages of Baby Speech | Babbling (sounds without meaning) from 2 - 6 months, one word speech from 6 - 18 months, telegraphic speech (2 words, grammatically correct) from 18 months to 3 years. | 28 | |
| 9265493673 | Surface Structure | In language, the sound and order of words. | 29 | |
| 9265493674 | Deep Structure | The underlying meaning of a sentence. | 30 | |
| 9265493675 | Critical Period for Human Language Learning | First three years of a person's life; if language isn't learned during this period, it will never be learned. | 31 | |
| 9265493676 | Whorf's Linguistic Determinism Theory | The language(s) you speak determine how you think, because you think in the same structure you speak in. | 32 | |
| 9265493677 | Chomsky | Developed the theory of innate grammar. | 33 | |
| 9265493678 | Ebbinghaus | Developed the forgetting curve and learning curve. | 34 | |
| 9265493679 | Kohler | Contributed to Gestalt theory. | 35 | |
| 9265493680 | Loftus | Researched malleability of the human brain. | 36 | |
| 9265493681 | Miller | The magic number 7; our short term memory can only store 7 pieces of information at a time. | 37 | |
| 9265493682 | Intelligence | All of the things that we do when we're thinking, planning, judging, and deciding, AND how well we do it. The ability to take in information, process it, and produce an output (ex: a decision, an idea, a paper, etc). | 38 | |
| 9265493683 | Binet | Developed the idea of an intelligence quotient, using your mental and chronological age. | 39 | |
| 9265493684 | Terman | Americanized Binet's IQ test, creating the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test. Creates bell curve with the mean at 100 and a standard deviation of 15. | 40 | |
| 9277736174 | Spearman's G Factor | The general intelligence underlying someone's ability to perform or do a wide variety of tasks. | 41 | |
| 9277736175 | Savants | People of low intelligence who have an extraordinary ability. Spearman's G Factor doesn't apply to them. | 42 | |
| 9277736176 | Gardner's Multiple Intelligences | Linguistic, Logical-Mathematical, Musical, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Spatial-Visual, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal. | 43 | |
| 9277736177 | Linguistic Intelligence | Ability to understand words and language. | 44 | |
| 9277736178 | Logical-Mathematical Intelligence | Ability to understand logical reasoning and problem solving; math, science, patterns, sequences. | 45 | |
| 9277736179 | Musical Intelligence | Ability to create, synthesize, or perform music. | 46 | |
| 9277736180 | Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence | Ability to control one's body movements and handle objects skillfully. | 47 | |
| 9277736181 | Spatial-Visual Intelligence | Ability to perceive or create things spatially or visually. | 48 | |
| 9277736182 | Interpersonal Intelligence | Ability to understand and interact effectively with others. | 49 | |
| 9277736183 | Intrapersonal Intelligence | Ability to be aware of and understand yourself. | 50 | |
| 9277736184 | Components of Sternberg's Conception of Intelligence | Analytical, creative, and practical. | 51 | |
| 9277736185 | Conception of Intelligence: Analytical | The intelligence we use to solve problems that have a single correct answer. | 52 | |
| 9277736186 | Conception of Intelligence: Creative | The intelligence we use to look for multiple correct answers to solve problems. | 53 | |
| 9277736187 | Conception of Intelligence: Practical | The intelligence we use to solve the problems of every day life. | 54 | |
| 9277736188 | Cattell's 2 Kinds of Intelligence | Fluid intelligence and concrete intelligence. | 55 | |
| 9277736189 | Fluid Intelligence | The ability to take in information really quickly and make decisions based off of what information you're getting. Works quickly. Younger people are much better at working with their fluid intelligence. | 56 | |
| 9277736190 | Concrete Intelligence | The accumulated knowledge that you've gained over your lifetime. Older people are much better at working with their concrete intelligence. | 57 | |
| 9277736191 | 4 Components of Emotional Intelligence | Ability to percieve emotions (in ourselves & in others), to understand emotions, to manage one's emotions, and to use emotions. | 58 | |
| 9277736192 | Divergent Thinking | Searching for new ways to solve a problem. | 59 | |
| 9277736193 | Convergent Thinking | Narrowing down a list of alternatives to converge on a single correct answer. | 60 | |
| 9277736194 | Five Preconditions of Creativity | Expertise (skill in your field), imagination, personality (contentiousness and openness), intrinsic motivation (self motivation), and an encouraging and providing environment. | 61 | |
| 9278182801 | Perceptual Speed | How quickly you can take in information. | 62 | |
| 9278182802 | Neurological Speed | How quickly you process information. | 63 | |
| 9278182803 | Wechsler | Created WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Skill) - study personal strengths and weaknesses in 11 different subjects. | 64 | |
| 9278182804 | Aptitude Test | A test designed to determine one's capacity to learn. | 65 | |
| 9278182805 | Achievement Test | A test designed to assess what a person has learned. | 66 | |
| 9278182806 | Normed Test | A test scored on a bell/normal curve. | 67 | |
| 9278182807 | Renorming/Restandardizing a Test | Adjusting the bell curve to follow any changes in the mean of a test. | 68 | |
| 9278182808 | Reliability in a Test | Consistency. If you give two groups of similar students the same test, they should get very similar scores; if you give one group of students two similar tests, they should get very similar scores. If they do, your test is reliable. | 69 | |
| 9278182809 | Content Validity | The extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest. (Testing what it is reported to test; a written driving test wouldn't have content validity because it doesn't test your actual skills at driving.) | 70 | |
| 9278182810 | Predictive Validity | The success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict. (The SAT is supposed to predict your success in college.) | 71 | |
| 9278182811 | Concurrent Validity | A way of measuring the validity of one test through comparison of another test that has validity; if they are similar, the test has concurrent validity. | 72 | |
| 9278182812 | Galton | Darwin's cousin who believed intelligence is inherited and was interested in individual differences. | 73 | |
| 9278182813 | Gardner | Developed theory of multiple intelligences. | 74 | |
| 9278182814 | Spearman | Developed g factor | 75 | |
| 9278182815 | Sternberg | Created his three conceptions of intelligences (analytical, creative, and practical). | 76 |
