PHYS 1107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Divergent Thinking
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9:03 am o o o o o o o o o o o o o o. Used to guide behavior and interpret new situaions. Availability: predict events that are easy to think about. Things that are easy to think about are more frequent. Representaive: lead people to esimate that simuli which are similar to a prototype are more likely to it the category than our simuli which are diferent from the prototype. Recogniion: people will place a higher value on the more easily recognized alternaive. Afect: use emoional responses to guide our decisions. Funcional ixedness: tendency to think about a concept in its most typical form and no other. Mental sets: tendency to habitually use the methods of problem solving that have worked for you in the past. Incubaing: period of no thinking about the problem.
