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What did Vygotsky state was Social interaction and Culture
important for development in
children?
A direct conclusion drawn from observable facts
What is Primary Inference?
"The grass is wet, it must have rained."
Cause and effect
What is Causal Inference?
"She drinks water everyday, that's why she skin cleared up"
A mental framework or organized knowledge structure that
helps people interpret and understand information.
What is a Schema?
"Based on your restaurant schema, when you walk into a
restaurant, you expect to be seated, given a menu, order food,
and pay afterward."
What is a Flash Bulb memory? A very clear and vivid recall of a shocking event in one's life.
Memories of facts and experiences that one can consciously
recall and describe; also called declarative memories.
What is explict memory?
You remember and can explain that you visited Paris in 2020 and
that the Eiffel Tower was larger than you expected.
Memories that influence our behavior without conscious
awareness; typically, skills and conditioned responses.
what is implicit memory?
You automatically know how to ride a bike even after many years
without consciously recalling how you learned.
, Cognitive bias where two events are associated and individuals
mistakenly believe they are related even if there is no
What is illusory correlation? connection.
"False belief or stereotype"
Possibility of two events happening together is always less than
or equal to the probability of either one happening alone.
What is the conjunction rule?
Probability
How does one still have the Prior information gathered of surrounding environment
ability to perceive an object with
Ballistic vision?
Form of implicit memory where Memory for skills and actions
What is Tacit memory? that you perform without thinking about them unconscious
memory you can't easily explain.
Watson disagreed with the philosophy of psychology that
Why did Watson disagree with emphasized subjective experiences and mental states, which
other Psychologist? were central to schools of thought like introspectionism and
structuralism
What is the term for for Learning
information that is acquired
A negotiating strategy is one in which a person gets what he or
she wants if something else happens.
contingency strategy
"In the event of"... " "I WILL DO A, IF YOU DO B FIRST"
A negotiating strategy in which one person says to another, "I'll
Trade-Off Strategy
give you A, if you will give me B."
The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual
Functional Fixedness
functions; an impediment to problem solving
An effect where humans
perceive horizontals and
verticals more quickly than
other orientations due to
Oblique effect
the physical regularity of
more frequent vertical and
horizontal orientations in
the environment.
The mind perceives
things as whole forms
rather than just a
Gestalt Approach collection of parts.
"GESTALT" IS GERMAN
FOR "SHAPE" OR "FORM.
WEAPON BLINDNESS
the tendency to focus attention on a weapon that results in a
Weapon Focus
narrowing of attention. Apparently, the presence of a weapon
that was fired distracted attention from other things that were
happening
WGU Cognitive Psychology OA Exam Study
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WGU D570 WGU D570 Cognitive Psychology PHY CH7
220 terms 458 terms 10 terms
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What did Vygotsky state was Social interaction and Culture
important for development in
children?
A direct conclusion drawn from observable facts
What is Primary Inference?
"The grass is wet, it must have rained."
Cause and effect
What is Causal Inference?
"She drinks water everyday, that's why she skin cleared up"
A mental framework or organized knowledge structure that
helps people interpret and understand information.
What is a Schema?
"Based on your restaurant schema, when you walk into a
restaurant, you expect to be seated, given a menu, order food,
and pay afterward."
What is a Flash Bulb memory? A very clear and vivid recall of a shocking event in one's life.
Memories of facts and experiences that one can consciously
recall and describe; also called declarative memories.
What is explict memory?
You remember and can explain that you visited Paris in 2020 and
that the Eiffel Tower was larger than you expected.
Memories that influence our behavior without conscious
awareness; typically, skills and conditioned responses.
what is implicit memory?
You automatically know how to ride a bike even after many years
without consciously recalling how you learned.
, Cognitive bias where two events are associated and individuals
mistakenly believe they are related even if there is no
What is illusory correlation? connection.
"False belief or stereotype"
Possibility of two events happening together is always less than
or equal to the probability of either one happening alone.
What is the conjunction rule?
Probability
How does one still have the Prior information gathered of surrounding environment
ability to perceive an object with
Ballistic vision?
Form of implicit memory where Memory for skills and actions
What is Tacit memory? that you perform without thinking about them unconscious
memory you can't easily explain.
Watson disagreed with the philosophy of psychology that
Why did Watson disagree with emphasized subjective experiences and mental states, which
other Psychologist? were central to schools of thought like introspectionism and
structuralism
What is the term for for Learning
information that is acquired
A negotiating strategy is one in which a person gets what he or
she wants if something else happens.
contingency strategy
"In the event of"... " "I WILL DO A, IF YOU DO B FIRST"
A negotiating strategy in which one person says to another, "I'll
Trade-Off Strategy
give you A, if you will give me B."
The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual
Functional Fixedness
functions; an impediment to problem solving
An effect where humans
perceive horizontals and
verticals more quickly than
other orientations due to
Oblique effect
the physical regularity of
more frequent vertical and
horizontal orientations in
the environment.
The mind perceives
things as whole forms
rather than just a
Gestalt Approach collection of parts.
"GESTALT" IS GERMAN
FOR "SHAPE" OR "FORM.
WEAPON BLINDNESS
the tendency to focus attention on a weapon that results in a
Weapon Focus
narrowing of attention. Apparently, the presence of a weapon
that was fired distracted attention from other things that were
happening
