Please look over the words from Chapter 7. The test will be short and sweet. As long as you understand the definitions and the concepts you will be fine.
Study Guide
Influences associated with reduced mental ability
1.
Poor Prenatal Care
2.
Malnutrition
3.
Exposure to Toxins
4.
Stressful Family Circumstances
Stereotype Threat – A burden
of doubt a person feels about his or her performance, due to negative
stereotypes about his or her groups abilities.
Post Decision Dissonance –tension
that occurs when you feel that you may have made a bad decision.
Hindsight Bias – When one
thinks that they knew the outcome all along.
Confirmation Bias – paying attention
to only to the evidence that supports their belief or finding fault with
evidence that point in a different direction.
Barriers to Reasoning
Rationally
1.
Exaggerating Improbable Outcomes
2.
Avoiding Loss
3.
Biases due to strict mental sets
Dialectical Reasoning
Finding Pro’s and Cons to a
possible question.
This is probably one of the best
types of reasoning.
Inductive Reasoning
If this is true + this is true +
possible discrepancy = conclusion probably true
Deductive Reasoning
Premise true + Premise true =
conclusion must be true
Subconscious Process
When you multitask sometimes you
are doing multiple things at once without fully being aware of performing all
tasks.
Prototype
A representative model of a
concept.
Mr. Squires Prototype R and B
singer = R. Kelly
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