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| The study of thinking, processing, and reasoning. |
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| How one represents the relationship between two things. |
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| ideas used to test relationships and then to form concepts. |
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| preconceived notion of how to look at a problem. |
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| an organized bunch of knowledge gathered from prior experiences that includes ideas about specific events or objects and the attributes that accompany them. |
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| Ideas about the way events typically unfold |
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| the representative type of an event or object |
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| having a new perspective on an old problem |
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| is used when more than on possibility exists in a single situation |
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| the idea that people develop closed minds about the functions of certain objects. |
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| The sum total of possible moves that one might make in order to solve a problem |
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| problem solving strategies that consider every possible solution and eventually hit on the correct solution. |
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| problem solving strategies that use rules of thumb or shortcuts based on what has worked in the past. |
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| refers to the process of thinking about your own thinking. |
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| the intervening mental process that occurs between stimulus and response. |
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| leads to specific conclusions that must follow from the information given. |
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| Allen Newell & Herbert Simon |
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| Introduced the first computer simulation model to think as a human would. |
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| leads to general rules that are inferred from specifics. |
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| Logical reasoning error - when a conclusion is influenced by the way information is phrased. |
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| Logical Reasoning Error - believing in conclusions because of what you know or think to be correct rather than what logically follows from the information given. |
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| Logical Reasoning Error - Remembering and using information that confirms what you already think. |
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| working on solving a problem until an acceptable answer is found. |
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| the capacity to use knowledge to improve achievement in the environment. |
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| What is used to measure cognitive processing. |
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| Elizabeth Loftus & Alan Collins |
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| suggested that people have hierarchical semantic networks in their memory that group together related items. |
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| in a word recognition task, it is the presentation of a related item before the next item. |
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| explains the decreased naming of a color of ink used to print words when the color of the ink and the word itself are of different colors. |
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| recognizing an item or pattern from data or details (Data Driven). |
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| recognizing an item or pattern guided by larger concepts. |
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| James Lange Theory of Emotion |
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| claims that bodily reactions to situations cause emotion. |
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| Cannon Bard Theory of Emotion aka Emergency Theory |
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| Asserts that emotions and bodily reactions occur simultaneously. |
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| Stanley Schachter & Jerome Singer |
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| Cognitive theory of Emotion. Emotions are the product of physiological reactions. The cognition we attach to a situation determines which emotional we feel in response to physiological arousal. |
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