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| Thinking, or manipulating and transforming info into memory |
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| Topics of cognitive study |
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| mental activities associated with knowing remembering, attending, judging, solving, and communicating |
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| Conservation of energy, (shortcuts) |
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pictures, presentations
Help organize info |
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speeds sorting into categories
speeds up/ guides problem solving |
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| thinking and behaving in ways to reach goals |
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Technique to problem solving
Try different ways until one works
A.K.A. mechanical |
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Technique to problem solving
step by step method that guarantees a solution (labor intensive) |
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Technique to problem solving
Fast, but prone to errors
educated guess based on past experience |
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Technique to problem solving
solution comes suddenly
(AHa! moment) |
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Technique to problem solving
ability to combine behaviors and ideas in new ways
(think outside the box) |
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Hinders problem solving
Tendency to search for information that backs what we already think or believe, and ignore the rest |
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type of fixation
Hinders problem solving
tendency to approach problems only one way |
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type of fixation
Hinders problem solving
tendency to think of things only in their usual function |
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| judging how likely someone is by how well it represents a prototype |
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| The more likely we think something will happen, it is easier to think of an example |
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| over estimate our accuracy |
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| The Belief Perseverance Phenomenon |
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| Tendency to cling to initial conceptions , even after the basis on which they were formed has been dis credited. |
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| What are psychologists that study cognition |
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Cognitive psychologist
Cognitive neuro psychologist |
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Radical experiment to stop seizures in 1953
Left IQ and personality intact along with limited problems with memory |
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| The single for mental ability assumed |
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| reflects info -processing capabilities, reasoning, and memory |
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| Crystallized intelligence |
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| the accumulation of skills that are used for experience |
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| related to overall success in living |
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| avg. age of of individuals who achieve a particular performance level |
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| The property by which tests measure consistently what they are trying to measure |
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| The property by which test actually measure what they are supposed to |
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| determine a persons level of knowledge |
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| predict where a person should pursue a career |
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