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| Manipulating and transferring info in memory |
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| What is the study of all mental activities associated with knowing, remembering, decidiing, attending, judging, and communicating |
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| Internal picture-like representations that organize |
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| Ideas that represent a group of similar objects, events, ideas, or people |
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| ___ means by definition and ___ means by prototype |
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| Conservation of resources and energy (shortcuts) that often help but sometimes get us in trouble |
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| Thinking and behaving in ways to reach a goal |
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| Helps identify a goal and the steps needed to get there |
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| Trying different ways until one works |
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| Step by step procedures that guarentee a solution |
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| Educated guess based on past experiance that is speedy but more error prone |
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Solution that comes suddenly and often novel
Also known as vs strategy based or "aha!" |
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| Ability to combine ideas and behaviors in new ways |
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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 with only one way |
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| Generally helping shortcuts that can lead to big mistakes are |
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| Judging how likely something is by how well it matches its 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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| Overestimating accuracy of our beliefs or judgements |
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| Tendency to cling to initial conceptons even after basis they were formed on has been discredited |
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| Belief Perserverance Phenomenon |
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| It is harder to change someones ___ than it is to create a new one |
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| What are the three steps in problem solving? |
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| Preparation, Production, and Judgement |
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| The tendency to think of an object only in terms of its typical use |
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| The communication of information through symbols arranged according to systematic rules |
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| System of rules that determine how our thoughts can be expressed in words |
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| The study of the smallest basic units of speech |
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| Smallest basic units of speech |
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| Rules that indicat how words and phrases can be combined to form sentences |
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| Meanings of word and sentences |
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| Suggests that language acquisition follows the principles of reinforcement and conditioning discovered by psychologists that study learning |
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