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| Geons and "Impossible Figures" |
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According to geon theory-complex objects are made up of simple basic parts called geons.
Impossible figures- Certain figures that can be drawn with no consistent interpretation -due to the fact that there is no real-world object tat could comprehend to it. |
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| Prototype theory of meaning |
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| forming familiar or typical examples with a category |
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| Thinking about one concept will activate the concepts linked to it. EX. flower will make you think of rose |
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| the tendency to read the word instead of saying the ink color as instructed |
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| the tendency to read the word instead of saying the ink color as instructed |
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| The frequent failure to recognizes changes in parts of a scene |
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| during after a brief period after perceiving one stimlulus it is difficult to attend to something else. |
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| a mechanical, repetative procedure for solving a promblem or testing every hypothesis |
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| Stratagies for simplifying a problem and formulating a guess- Quick and unconscious |
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| Representativeness Heuristic |
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| The assumption that an item that resembles members of some category is probably another member of that category |
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| How common two categories are when deciding wether something belongs in one category or another |
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| how easily one can remember examples of an item is related to how common the item itself is. |
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| belif that estimates are more accurate than they really are |
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| Accepting a hypothesis and then looking for evidence to back it up, instead of considering other possibilities |
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| the tendency to answer a question differently when it is phrased in a different way |
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| Invented by Conrad Waddington. it is an illustration of grooves and canals. In example. Height vs. Outgoingness-height is deeply canalized because it is something you can't do much about while out goingness is not deeply canalized because it is easily influenced. |
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| A triat due to heredty of the environment. "plasticity" -how much can an environment effect a trait? |
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| develop from a single egg and have identical genes. Can be in mirror image. some traits possessed in one and evident in the other |
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| develop from a single egg and have identical genes. Can be in mirror image. some traits possessed in one and evident in the other |
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| develop from a single egg and have identical genes. Can be in mirror image. some traits possessed in one and evident in the other |
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