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Myers Module 23
Thinking
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cognition | the mental activites associated with processing, understanding, remembering and communicating |
| Cognitive Psychologists | Study logical and illogical cognition |
| Concept | mental groupings of similar objects, events and people. |
| Prototype | mental image or best example of a category |
| Algorithm | a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem; slower but more correct |
| Heuristic | a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently; speedy but more error prone |
| Insight | a sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem; contrasts with strategy based solutions. |
| Confirmation Bias | a tendency to search for information that confirms one’s preconceptions. |
| Fixation | the inability to see a problem from new perspective |
| Functional Fixedness | the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions |
| Representativeness heuristic | judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead one to ignore other relevant information |
| Availability Heuristic | estimating the likelihood of events on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness), we presume such events are common |
| Overconfidence | the tendency to be more confident than correct- to overestimate the accuracy of one’s beliefs and judgements |
| Framing | the way an issue is posed |
| Belief perseverance | clinging to ones initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited. |