Final Exam
Glossary Terms
All of the following terms should be included in your glossary. Do
not use more than 2 sentences in explaining each term. You can
certainly work with others to obtain initial definitions of the
terms, but the definitions you turn in must be in your own words.
Mynatt and Doherty Terms
Memory (M&D 17,18,19)
- capacity of working memory
- primacy effect
- recency effect
- capacity of long term memory
- constructive processes in LTM
- mnemonics
- flashbulb memories
- how schemas facilitate learning
Cognition (M&D 20,21, 43)
- availability heuristic
- representativeness heuristic
- base rate
- hit/miss/false alarm
- algorithm
- Four mechanisms that produce confirmation bias
- Deviations from optimal decision making (text and
lecture)
Ward, Finke, & Smith Terms
- Creative cognition
- Assumptions of the cognitive approach to creativity
- Criteria for a creative product
- Geneplore model
- Test-operate-test-exit
- Structured imagination
- Metacognition
- Simple concepts
- Fixed vs active view of concepts
- Basic concepts
- Abstraction
- Essential properties of concepts
- Metaphor and conceptual combination
- Schemas
- Mental models
- Mental imagery and memory
- Mental imagery and cognitive processing
- Preinventive forms
- Emergent features in images
- Structural connectedness
- Imaginative divergence
- Creative idealism
- Reproductive vs creative problem solving
- Well and ill defined problems
- Convergent vs divergent thinking
- Algorithms
- Heuristics
- Mental set
- Tip of the tongue
- Incubation and forgetting
- Intuition
- Insight
Essay
Answer the following short essay question in no more than 1 single
spaced page. Be sure to use the rubric
in generating and evaluating your answer.
How would Ward, Finke, & Smith critique Freud's and Skinner's
approaches to creativity? How would Freud and Skinner critique the
cognitive approach? Use examples from any of the application chapters
in Ward Finke, and Smith (chapters 5 through 8).
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