Psychology 200 - 3_1
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:
