chapter 7

______ is when someone is aware of their own cognitive processes (e.g. thinking about thinking

• executive functioning

• emotional intelligence

• metacognition

• intelligence

when someone is watching their favorite sports team win and say something "I knew this would happen", this is an example of...

• implicit learning

• confirmation bias

• cognitive dissonance

• hindsight bias

_____ intelligence is the ability to identify your own and other people's emotions accurately, express your emotions clearly, and regular emotions in yourself and others

• implicit

• emotional

• explicit

• intellectual

the mental representation that someone has of how things are related, for example, someone knows Christmas involves Santa eating cookies, children opening presents

• cognitive schema

• representative heuristic

• concept

• hindsight bias

when someone has learned something that shows through their behavior or actions, but they cannot consciously explain what they are doing or how they learned it

• heuristics

• Explicit learning
• mindlessness

• implicit learning

something is out of one's conscious awareness, but can be brought to conscious if necessary

• Unconscious

• Subconscious

• Conscious

• Awareness level

when someone tries to solve a problem using a method that worked on a previous problem (e.g. trying to push a door that is a pull door)

• Functional fixedness
• Confirmation bias
• Mental set

• Cognitive dissonance

Paul is a 10 year old boy who has a mental age of 6, his IQ would be what?

• 90

• 130

• 100

• 60

what is meant by "mental age"

• what someone's IQ is

• her intellectual development level related to peers

• how old someone is in terms of years

• age divided by IQ

when you see a new breed of dog that you have never seen before, you are still able to tell that it is a dog. this is because we store ______ in our brain.

• implicit ideas

• cognitive schemas

• ideas

• concepts