Final Exam Study Guide – Psych 105 Fall 2014 Final Exam includes Chapters 8, 9, 10, & Cumulative material This is a summary of the items that will be found on the Final Exam – it is NOT an all inclusive list! Cumulative Material

Final Exam Study Guide – Psych 105 Fall 2014 Final Exam includes Chapters 8, 9, 10, & Cumulative material This is a summary of the items that will be found on the Final Exam – it is NOT an all inclusive list! Cumulative Material Critical thinking – what is it? What is/are the critical parts? The disposition for effortful thinking and learning Evaluating the strength of an argument (acceptable and consistent premises, premise supports conclusion, missing components, etc.) Propaganda Fallacies (popularity technique, circular reasoning, slippery slope, straw person, knowing the     unknowable, false cause) Inductive and deductive meaning Independent and dependent variables (What are they? Be able to identify them in a scenario) Positive and negative correlations Validity, Reliability, Convergent validity Chapter 8 Good decision making Subjective utility Fallacy Confirmation bias Heuristics and algorithms – what are they? How do they differ? Availability and representativeness heuristics – what are they? How does thinking go wrong for each? Wishful thinking Entrapment – what is it? Possible scenarios? Psychological reactance Reciprocity and mere exposure – what are they? How might they influence thinking? Biased discounting Cognitive dissonance Foot-in-the-door technique Chapter 9 What is a problem? What is the anatomy of a problem? Stages of problem solving Incubation and insight Persistence-does it pay? Why persist? Well-defined and ill-defined problems and how to approach each kind Generating multiple goal states – what does it mean? Why do it? Techniques for generating solutions (means-ends analysis, working backward, brainstorming, analogies) Personal, direct, symbolic, and fantasy analogies Mental sets and functional fixedness Chapter 10 How is creativity defined? Gardner (1988) – what does he say should be included in the definition? Vertical and Lateral thinking Do creative and non-creative people differ? What type of things do creative people work on? Creativity and the 3 S’s Analogical thinking Shalley (1991) Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation Strategies for creative thinking PLACE THIS ORDER OR A SIMILAR ORDER WITH US TODAY AND GET AN AMAZING DISCOUNT :)