Invitation to Psychology

226 Thought: Using What We Know Reasoning Rationally Barriers to Reasoning Rationally Measuring Intelligence: The Psychometric A ...

• Fluid Dynamics: Rouslan Krechetnikov and Hans Mayer, for studying how liquid sloshes when someone walks while carrying a cup ...

228 Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence You are about to learn... • the basic elements of thought. • whether the language ...

Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence 229 expectations about what it means to be male or female (see Chapter 3). People also have ...

230 Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence they might once have required careful, conscious attention: knitting, typing, driving a ...

Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence 231 involved when you combine the ingredients and cook the batter in an oven. Other problems ...

232 Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence ball. How much does the ball cost? Most people answer with fast thinking and say 10 cent ...

Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence 233 In general, people who rely on prereflective thinking tend to assume that a correct answ ...

234 Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence People who are quasi-reflective thinkers rec- ognize that some things cannot be known wi ...

Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence 235 Exaggerating the Improbable (and Minimizing the Probable) LO 7.5 One common bias is the ...

236 Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence the same dangers, used the technical names of the disease—Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or ...

Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence 237 making, but because there is (as yet) no Nobel Prize in psychology, he won it in economi ...

238 Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence Some behavioral economists are using MRI scans to examine brain activity when people pla ...

Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence 239 “noise” in the information. But it also leads us to see meaningful patterns even when th ...

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Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence 241 of fairness keeps us from behaving like self- centered louts; mental sets and the hindsi ...

242 Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence You are about to learn... • both sides of the debate about whether a single thing cal ...

Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence 243 Binet’s Brainstorm. Wrestling with the prob- lem, Binet had a great insight: In the clas ...

244 Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence reasoning, processing speed, and memory. Items measure a range of abilities, including v ...

Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence 245 person’s general attitude toward exams, motiva- tion, rapport with the test giver, compe ...