Posted: December 11th, 2014

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

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