Unit 7B Terms Psych – Flashcards
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Where does Insight take place in the brain?
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right frontal lobe.
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What are the five components of creativity?
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Expertise, Imaginative thinking skills, A venturesome personality, Intrinsic motivation, A creative environment.
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What is the representative heuristic?
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Using prototypes of representation/populations to solve a problem. (Is a short slim man who loves poetry an Ivy league professor or truck driver, most guess Ivy league professor.)
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What is availability heuristic?
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Solving problems by using information that is readily available in the mind, flashing lights for a small win in a casino entice you more because it stands out.
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What is a phoneme?
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A phoneme is a "building block" sound, like bat has B A T and chat has CH A T.
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What is a Morpheme?
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The smallest unit of language that carries meaning, EX in english- I. (I is phoneme and I is "me") Or Pre like in preview.
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What is semantics?
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Set of rules we use to derive meaning from morphemes and words/sentences.
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What is syntax?
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The rules we use to order words into sentences.
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What is the tendency to search for information consistent with our preconceptions?
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Confirmation Bias.
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People have a greater fear of things that are ______? Exemplified through people fearing flying more than smoking.
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Immediate.
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B.F Skinner emphasized the importance of having _____ in language acquisition?
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Reinforcement.
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In elementary school and high school Charlie got away with copying his test answers from classmates. Because college has test proctors who are very observant, Charlie spends as many hours devising new ways to cheat as it would take him to study and perform well in an honest fashion. Charlie's strategy for passing tests illustrates the consequences of?
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A mental set.
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People are often positively impressed by research that supports their own point of view. Asking them whether they would have been equally impressed by the same research if it had provided results that disputed their point of view is likely to inhibit?
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Belief perseverance.
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What are the components of creativity?
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Expertise and venturesome personality.
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Professor Peglers research efforts focus on how the use of heuristics influences the way people assess financial risks. Which specialty area does his research best represent?
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Cognitive Psychology
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At 17 months of age, Julia says "wada" whenever she wants a drink of water. Julie is most likely in the _____ stage of life?
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One word.
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Dean overestimates the proportion of family chores for which he takes sole responsibility because it's easier for him to recall what he has done than to recall what other family members have done. This best illustrates the impact of?
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The availability heuristic.
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Because Ken is 6'6" people often mistakenly assume that he must be a member of his high school basketball team. This mistaken judgment best illustrates the impact of?
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The Representative heuristic.
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A mental set is a?
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Tendency to approach a problem in a way that has been successful in the past.
