psych chp 8 thinking

The fact that Jordan hears about airplane crashes on the news more often than he hears about automobile crashes may lead him to believe that he is more likely to die in a plane than in a car. This scenario exemplifies:

avaibility heuristic

When scores on an intelligence test relate to important outcomes such as job performance, then the intelligence test has a high level of

criterion validity

Whenever scientists use theories to make specific predictions and then evaluate their predictions by making further observations, _____ is at work.

deductive reasoning

shortcut strageties

heuristicsn

Human beings will often reason from the specific to the general. That is, people often form general rules and concepts based on specific experiences and examples. This type of reasoning is termed as:

inductive reasoning

ability to do well on cognitive tasks, to solve problems, and to learn from experience.

intelligence

a language's rules for word formation.

morphology

Cognitive psychologists are interested in examining the process of:

problem solving

frames of mind describes the ability to think three-dimensionally

spatial