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| thinking- manipulating and transforming info in memory |
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internal, picture-like representations (things or events)
help? with organization and mental maps |
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ideas that represent a group of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
help with new data |
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thinking and behaving in ways to reach a goal
identify goal and steps needed to get there |
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try different ways until one works
aka mechanical |
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step by step procedures that guarantee a solution
every letter every place formula |
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speedier but more error prone
educated guess based on past experience |
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| solution comes suddenly and often novel |
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| ability to combine ideas and behaviors in new ways- think outside the box |
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| tendency to search for info that supports what we already think, and to ignore or distort info that contradicts our beliefs |
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| tendency to approach problems from only one way |
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| functional fixedness (fixation) |
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| tendency to think of things only in terms of usual functions |
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| judging how likely something is by how well it represents prototype |
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| the easier it is to think of an example, the more likely we are to think it will happen |
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| we are often more confident than we are correct |
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| the belief perseverance phenomenon |
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| tendency to cling to initial conceptions even after basis they were formed on has been discredited |
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| capacity to understand the world, think rationally, and use resources effectively when faced with challenges |
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| single, general factor for mental ability assumed to underlie intelligence in some early theories of intelligence |
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| that reflects information-processing capabilities, reasoning, and memory |
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| crystallized intelligence |
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| accumulation of info, skills, and strategies that are learned through experience |
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| theory of multiple intelligence |
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| proposes that there eight spheres of intelligence |
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| intelligence related to overall success in living |
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| score that takes into account an individual's mental and chronological ages |
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| using and misusing heuristics |
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| two generally helpful shortcuts can lead the smartest into dumb decisions |
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| 1974-studied decision making |
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| What do you call psychologists that study cognition? |
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| Cognitive psychologist or cognitive neuropsychologist |
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| conservation of resources/ energy |
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| average age of who achieves a particular level of performance on test |
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