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~ Cognitive Psychology
~ Solving Problems
~ Obstacles to Solving Problems
~ Language
~ Random Cognitive ?’s
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Cognitive
Psych
Solving
Problems
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Solving
Problems
Language
Random
Cognitive ?’s
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Cognitive Psychology: 10-
Those who study logical and illogical ways
in which we create concepts, solve
problems, create language, make
decisions and form judgments.
Who are Cognitive
Psychologists?
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Cognitive Psychology: 20-
Mental activities associated with
thinking, knowing, remembering
and communicating.
What is Cognition?
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Cognitive Psychology: 30-
An individuals mental image
that incorporates all the
features they associate with
a concept.
What is a Prototype?
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Cognitive Psychology: 40-
A mental grouping of similar
objects, events, ideas or people.
What is a Concept?
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Cognitive Psychology: 50-
Psychologist who believed in
Operant Learning due to making
associations, imitation and
reinforcements.
Who is B. F. Skinner?
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Cognitive Psychology: 100-
Early speech state in which a child
speaks like a telegram using 2 word
phrases made up of nouns and verbs.
What is Telegraphic Speech?
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Solving Problems: 10-
A simple thinking strategy
that is efficient for solving
problems.
What is a Heuristic?
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Solving Problems: 20-
A methodical, step-by-step
process that always
guarantees a solution.
What is an Algorithm?
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Solving Problems: 30-
Psychologist who created 5
components dealing with
Creativity.
Who is Sternberg?
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Solving Problems: 40-
A sudden, often novel
realization, of the solution to a
problem. A-Ha!
What is Insight?
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Solving Problems: 50-
An individual being driven more
by interest, satisfaction and
challenge instead of external
rewards or pressures.
What is Intrinsic Motivation?
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Solving Problems: 100-
This provides the ability to
see things in a novel way.
Helps us to make
connections.
What are
Imaginative Thinking Skills ?
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Obstacles to Solving Problems: 10-
When people can only think of
objects in terms of their usual
functions.
What is Functional
Fixedness?
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Obstacles to Solving Problems: 20-
Tendency to search for information
that supports our preconceptions
and ignore or distort contradictory
evidence.
What is Confirmation Bias?
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Obstacles to Solving Problems: 30-
Inability to see a problem from a new
perspective. Keep doing what
you’ve always done.
What is Fixation?
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Obstacles to Solving Problems: 40-
When individuals tend to approach a
problem in one particular way. We
must break this with creativity.
What is our Mental Set?
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Obstacles to Solving Problems: 50-
Judging the likelihood of things in
terms of how well they seem to
represent, or match, our particular
prototypes.
What is a Representative Heuristic?
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Obstacles to Solving Problems: 100-
Estimating the likelihood of events
based on their availability in our
memory.
What is Availability Heuristic?
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Language: 10-
Rules for combining words into
grammatically sensible sentences in
a given language.
What is Syntax?
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Language: 20-
The smallest unit that carries
meaning; prefixes and suffixes.
What are Morphemes?
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Language: 30-
Set of rules by which we derive
meaning from morphemes, words
and sentences in a given language.
What is Semantics?
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Language: 40-
The smallest distinctive sound unit;
about 40 used in English; changes the
meaning of the word.
What are Phonemes?
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Language: 50-
The ability to comprehend speech.
What is Receptive Language?
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Language: 100-
The ability to produce words; develops
in 3 different stages.
What is Productive Language?
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Random Cognitive ?’s: 10-
The tendency to be more confident
than correct; over estimate the
accuracy of our beliefs.
What is Overconfidence?
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Random Cognitive ?’s: 20-
An effortless, immediate, automatic
feeling or thought used to solve
most everyday problems.
What is Intuition?
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Random Cognitive ?’s: 30-
Clinging to one’s initial conceptions
after the basis on which they were
formed has been discredited;
Prejudice.
What is Belief Perseverance?
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Random Cognitive ?’s: 40-
The way an issue is presented which can
significantly affect someone’s decision
or judgment of issues/questions.
What is Framing?
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Random Cognitive ?’s: 50-
Linguist and Psychologist who believed
that language we all have a pre-wired
language acquisition device; an
inborn universal grammar within us.
Who is Chomsky?
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Random Cognitive ?’s: 100-
Time period where we must master certain
aspects of language or we will miss the
window and the learning capacity of language
will never fully develop.
What is the Critical Period?
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