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18 Cards in this Set
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Cognition |
All the mental activities associated with thinking knowing remembering and communicating |
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Concept |
A mental grouping of similar objects events ideas or people |
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Prototype |
A mental image or best example of a category can be individual |
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Creativity |
The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas |
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Convergent thinking |
Narrows the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution |
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Divergent thinking |
Expands the number of possible problems solutions |
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Perrie de Fermat |
A seventeenth-century mischievous genius who came up with Fermat's Last Theorem |
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Algorithm |
A methodical logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem it is error free but slow |
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Heuristic |
A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently, it is more error-prone however it is speedier |
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Insight |
The sudden novel solution to an idea AKA an aha moment |
Frontal lobes, the right temporal lobe just above the ear |
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Confirmation bias |
The tendency to ignore information that contradicts one's preconceptions |
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mental set |
A tendency to approach a problem in one particular way often away that has been successful in the past |
A type of fixation |
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Intuition |
An effortless immediate automatic feeling or thought as contrasted with explicit conscious reasoning |
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Representativeness heuristic |
Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent or match particular prototypes |
Stereotype, that may lead us to ignore other relevant information |
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Availability heuristic |
Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory what is readily in the mind |
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Overconfidence |
The tendency to be more confident than correct to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments |
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Belief perseverance |
Clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited |
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Framing |
The way an issue is posed how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgments |
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