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| An activity involved in the adaptation of intellectual processes during which mental structures (schemes) undergo reorganizations so that new information that does not readily conform to previous structures can be integrated into the cognitive system. |
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| The responsive adjustment of a sense organ to varying qualities or intensity of a stimulus. Changes over time in an organism that increases the long-term potential for reproductive success. |
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| An activity involved in the adaptation processes during which new situations are processed in accordance with existing mental structures or schemes. |
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| Arrangement of knowledge into specific groups or systems |
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| The ability to understand the meaning or importance of something. |
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| The idea that certain transformations do not alter the basic properties of objects. |
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Functional Validation
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| The idea that the notion that for the neural system to become fully functional, stimulus is required. |
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| The branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease in older people and the problem specific to aging. |
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| The study of aging and its biological, psychological, and sociological impacts. |
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| The collective functioning of connected, interdependent parts. |
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| A mental representation of some action (mental or physical) that can be performed on an object an that, as the organism develops, increases in the integration and coordination. (see adaptation) |
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| a cognitive framework of meaningfully organized concepts |
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| The process of deterioration natural to the development of an organism. |
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| The ability to order elements according to some underlying principle. |
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| The ability to coordinate isolated elements from a total system and perform operations on those elements. |
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| Argument based on attacking the person making the argument, not the substance of the argument itself. |
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| A theory of how 2 ideas or units become connected in the mind. |
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| Person perception, the tendency for one characteristic of a person to influence the way the persons other characteristics are perceived by others. |
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availability heuristic
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| Mental shortcut that leads people to base a judgement on the ease with which something can be brought to mind. |
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| A mathematical statement of a relationship evaluating the probability that a hypothesis regarding a future event is true. |
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| Ideas or groups of ideas (tangible or intangible) that shares specific common features or characteristics. |
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| The discernment of properties common to a class of stimuli and the discovery of rules relating its properties; also known as concept learning. |
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Conditional Probability
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| The probability that an event will occur given that one or more other events have previously occurred. |
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Conservative focusing
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| A hypothesized strategy used in concept formation in which one hypothesis is formulated and reformulations of a positive instance are sequentially tested and outcomes noted. (hypothesis testing) |
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| A decision maker's framework concerning a choice alternative that includes behaviors, results and contingencies. |
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| The process of reasoning in which particular conclusions are drawn from more general principals or previously known facts |
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| A strategy used in concept formation in which more than one concept feature at a time is changed, with the goal of being a correct response in a shorter time span. |
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| Reasoning from the particular to the general. |
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| The science of thinking based on laws that determine the validity of a conclusion. |
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| The similarity in structure, function or meaning of two or more entities. |
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representiveness heuristic
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| The tendency to judge the probability or aspects of an event by using previously acquired information from a known event and assuming that the probabilities or aspects of the event will be similar. |
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simultaneous scanning
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| A strategy used in concept formation in which people begin with all possible hypothesis and eliminate all untenable ones. |
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| A strategy used in concept formation in which people begin with one hypothesis as long as it is successful and discard or change it when it is no longer tenable. |
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| An argument according to Aristotle's logical theory involving a major premise, a minor premise and a conclusion. |
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| The general process of considering an issue in the mind, which results in the formation of new mental representation. |
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| Conversations between people in which argumentation or persuasion plays a role. |
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| Units of importance, which, when combined, form a larger, cohesive concept, model, or theory. |
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componential intelligent behavior
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| Intelligence related to academic problem solving _____________________ |
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contextual intelligence behavior
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| The ability to grasp, deal with an understand every day tasks. ____________ |
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| A deductive form of thinking with a goal of arriving at the single best answer or conclusion. |
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| The process of involving cognitive activity that results in new ideas or concepts. |
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| The ability to think creatively is determined by culture and education. |
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| Thinking that involves generating many different answers to a single problem, with the "correctness" dependent on subjective evaluation of answers as abstract and flexible. |
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experiential intelligence behavior
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| The ability to react to novel situations and stimuli. |
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| The tendency to view things in terms of their familiar uses, which makes it difficult to achieve novel perspectives often necessary for problem solving. (i.e. a pancake turner can only be used to turn pancakes would be an example of this theory) |
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| The ability to comprehend, understand, and profit from experience. |
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| A stage in the creative process that involves sudden understanding of a prolbem and its solution. |
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| A stage in the creative process that involves temporarily setting a problem aside and diverting attention elsewhere. |
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| Instinctive knowing (without the use of rational process) |
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| refers to the person's knowledge about how to solve a problem. related to general intelligence. |
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| A stage in the creative process that involves problem formulation and initial solution attempts. |
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| Thought directed toward discovering a solution for a specific problem that involves both response formulation and response selection. |
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| A stage in the creative process that involves testing or carrying out the problem solution. |
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