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Thinking and Intelligence

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A mental category that groups objects, relations, activities, abstractions, or qualities having common properties.   show
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show Concept  
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show Prototype  
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A golden retriever is considered the ________ of a dog   show
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show Bemjamin Lee Whorf  
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show Propositions  
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"Hortense raises border collies" or "Border collies are smart" are examples of...   show
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show Cognitive Schema  
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show Gender Schema  
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show Mental Images  
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Mental processes occurring outside of conscious awareness but accessible to consciousness when necessary   show
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show Subconscious Process  
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Mental processes occurring outside of an not available to conscious awareness.   show
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show Nonconscious Processes  
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Learning that occurs when you acquire knowledge about something without being aware of how you did so and without being able to state exactly what it is you have learned   show
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An example of this is when someone discovers the best strategy for winning a cad game without being able to consciously identify what they are doing   show
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show Mindlessness  
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Acting, speaking, and making decision out of habit, without stopping to analyze what we are doing or why we are doing it is an example of...   show
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The drawing of conclusion or inferences from observations, facts, or assumptions   show
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show Algorithm  
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A form of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from certain premises; if the premises are true, the conclusion must be true   show
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"All human beings are mortal" + "I am a human being" = "I am mortal" is an example of...   show
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A form of reasoning in which the premises provide support for a conclusion, but it is still possible for the conclusion to be false   show
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show Inductive Reasoning  
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show Heuristic  
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Asking a friend how they liked their instructor when trying to decide whether to take a particular course is an example of...   show
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A process in which opposing facts or ideas are weighed and compared with a view to determining the best solution or to resolving differences   show
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How juries are supposed to arrive at a verdict: consider arguments for and against the defendant's guilt, point and counterpoint   show
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Seven stages to making decisions. At each stage, people make different assumption about how things are known and use different ways of justifying or defending their beliefs   show
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show Prereflective Stages  
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During these three stages, people recognize that some things cannot be known with absolute certainty, and they realize that judgments should be supported by reasons, yet they pay attention only to evidence that fits what they already believe   show
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In these last two stages, a person becomes capable of understanding that although some things can never be known with certainty, some judgments are more valid than others because of their coherence, their fit with the evidence, and their usefulness   show
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The tendency to overestimate one's ability to have predicted an evven once the outcome is known; the "I knew it all along" phenomenon   show
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The tendency to judge the probability of a type of event by how easy it is to think of examples or instances   show
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show Confirmation Bias  
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show Availability Heuristic  
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A tendency to solve problems using procedures that worked before on similar problems   show
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The "Ultimate Game" is an example of the...   show
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show Cognitive Dissonance  
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In the theory of cognitive dissonance, tension that occurs when you believe you may have made a bad decision   show
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The tendency of individuals to increase their liking for something that they have worked hard or suffered to attain; a common form of dissonance reduction   show
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An inferred characteristic of an individual, usually defined as the ability to profit from experience, acquire knowledge, think abstractly, act purposefully, or adapt to changes in the environment   show
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show G Factor  
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The measurement of mental abilities, traits, and processes   show
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show Mental Age (MA)  
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A burden of doubt a person feels about his or her performance, due to negative stereotypes about his or her group's abilities   show
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show Emotional Intelligence  
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