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ThinkPsychology CH09

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Definition
Achievement   show
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show a step-by-step procedure that a person can follow to arrive at a solution to a particular problem.  
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Analytic intelligence   show
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Aptitude   show
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show the act of applying the mind selectively to a sense or thought  
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Attentional blink   show
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Availability heuristic   show
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Belief bias   show
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Belief perseverance   show
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show mental activities associated with sensation, perception, thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating  
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show a mental grouping of similar objects, events, and people  
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show a person's tendency to look for evidence that proves his or her beliefs and to ignore evidence that disproves those beliefs  
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show a type of intelligence characterized by the ability to adapt to new situations, come up with unique and unusual ideas, and think of novel solutions to problems  
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show the process of selecting and rejecting available options  
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show a top-down method of arriving at a specific conclusion based on broader premises  
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Discursive reasoning   show
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Dopamine   show
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Emotional intelligence   show
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show see stimulus-driven selection  
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show parts of the brain that inhibit pleasurable responses so that people can avoid making decisions that feel good but are bad for them  
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show a theory that claims that people make category judgments by comparing new things they encounter with examples of other things they remember that fit into that category  
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show See stimulus-driven selection  
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Family resemblance theory   show
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Filter theory   show
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show the perspective from which people interpret information before making a decision  
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show a bias that limits a person's ability to think in unconventional ways  
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General intelligence   show
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Goal state   show
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show a type of attention in which a person makes an explicit choice to pay attention to something  
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Heuristics   show
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show a leveled or ranked organization of concept categories based on particular features  
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show a person's erroneous belief that he or she knew something all along after an event has occurred  
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Inductive reasoning   show
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Initial state   show
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Insight   show
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show the capacity to reason, solve problems, and acquire new knowledge  
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Judgment   show
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show the level of ability typical of a child of the same chronological age  
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Mental set   show
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Normal distribution   show
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show a person's tendency to think that he or she is more knowledgeable or accurate than he or she really is  
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show the processing difficulty or complexity of a task  
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Practical intelligence   show
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show a type of reasoning in which a person considers what to do or how to act  
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Problem solving   show
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Prodigy   show
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Prototype   show
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Reasoning   show
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Savant syndrome   show
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show part of the perceptual system that holds information for a short time before it is accepted or rejected by a filter  
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Set of operations   show
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show the ability to negotiate new social environments  
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show is a type of attention that is motivated by external factors.  
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Syllogism   show
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Syllogistic reasoning   show
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Theorical reasoning   show
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