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| The way in which info is processed and manipulated in remembering thinking and knowing |
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| Mental process of manipulating info mentally by forming concepts, solving problems making decisions and reflecting critically |
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| A mental category that is used to group objects events and characteristics |
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| Model emphasizing that when people evaluate whether a given item reflects a certain concept they compare the item with the most typical items in that category and look for a family resemblance |
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| Mental process of finding an appropriate way to attain a goal when the goal is not readily available |
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| strategies including formulas that guarantee a solution to a problem |
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| Shortcut strategies or guidelines that suggest a solution to a problem but don't guarantee an answer |
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| using a prior strategy and failing to look at a problem from a fresh new perspective |
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| failing to solve a problem as a result of fixation on a thing's usual functions |
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| mental activity of transforming info to reach conclusions |
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| Reasoning from specific observations to make generalizations |
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| Reasoning from a general case that is known to be true to a specific instance |
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| Mental activity of evaluating alternatives and choosing among them. |
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| Tendency to search for and use info that supports our ideas rather than refutes them |
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| Tendency to report falsely after the fact that we predicted an outcome |
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| Prediction about the probability of an event based on the ease of recalling or imagining similar events |
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| Tendency to ignore info about general principles in favor of very specific but vivid info. |
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| Representativeness Heuristic |
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| Tendency to make judgments about group membership based on physical appearances or the match between a person and one's stereotype of a group rather than on available base rate info. |
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| State of being alert and mentally present for one's everyday activities |
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| State of being receptive to other ways of looking at things |
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| Ability to think about something in novel and unusual ways an to devise unconventional solutions to problems |
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| Thinking that produces many solutions to the same problem |
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| Thinking that produces the single best solution to a problem |
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| All purpose ability to do well on cognitive tasks to solve problems and to learn from experience |
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| Extent to which a test measures what it is supposed to |
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| An individuals level of mental development relative to that of others |
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| individuals mental age divided by age multiplied by 100 |
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| A symmetrical bell shaped curve with a majority of the cores falling in the middle of the possible ranges. |
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| Proportion of observable differences in a group that can be explained by differences in the genes of the group's members |
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