PSYC 2000 : EXAM 3
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Cognition- mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. Confirmation bias: a tendency to search for information that confirms a. Prototypes: we form mental images or typical examples. Example) a robin is a prototype of a bird. Concepts- mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people. Algorithms: methodological step-by-step procedure ends in a. Heuristics make it easier for us to use simple principles to arrive at solutions. Fixation: inability to see a problem from a fresh perspective. Functional fixedness: our tendency to perceive the functions of objects as. Representativeness heuristic: judging the likelihood of things or objects in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, a particular prototype. Availability heuristic: estimating the likelihood of events based on their fixed and unchanging judgments fear about what may happen solution to problems. personal bias availability evidence meaning to others and ourselves.
