Psychology 200 - 3_1

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Cognition

Which term refers to all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating?

Words shape the way people think

Whorf's linguistic determinism hypothesis emphasizes that:

Creativity

A fixation is most likely to inhibit

Validity

A test that measures or predicts what it is supposed to is said to have a high degree of:

One-word

At the age of 15 months, Anita repeatedly cries "hoy" when she wants her mother to hold her, Anita is most likely in the ____ stage of language development

Category hierarchies

By dividing broad concepts into increasingly smaller and detailed sub groupings, we create:

Universal grammar

Chomsky suggested that diverse human languages share a:

Mental age divided by chronological age and multiplied by 100

For the original version of the Stanford-Binet, IQ was defined as:

Reliability

If a test yields consistent results every time it is used, it has a high degree of:

Ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and adapt to new situations

Most experts view intelligence as a person's:

A mental image

People's procedural memory of how to open the front door of their house is most likely to consist of:

Intelligence tests

Psychologists use _____ to assess individuals' mental aptitudes and compare them with those of others

Heuristics

Simple thinking strategies that allow us to solve problems and make judgements efficiently are called:

Two-word

Telegraphic speech is most closely associated with the ____ stage of language development

Verbal and performance

The WAIS consists of separate ____ subjects

Search for information that is consistent with our preconceptions

The confirmation bias refers to the tendency to:

Babbling

The earliest stage of speech development is called the _____ stage

Underestimate the extent to which our beliefs and judgements are invalid

The overconfidence phenomenon refers to the tendency to:

Judge the likelihood of category membership by how closely an object or event resembles a particular prototype

The representativeness heuristic refers to our tendency to:


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