PSYCH 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Representativeness Heuristic, Visual Cortex, Intellectual Disability
27 Oct 2017
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Cognition: mental activity for organizing, understanding and communication. Thinking: mental activity that goes on in the brain when a person in processing information, awareness of info in brain, making decisions about it, comparing it to other info and using it to solve problems. Problem solving: occurs when a goal must be reached by thinking and behaving in certain ways. Decision making: identifying, evaluating, and choosing among several alternatives, trial and error, mechanical solutions, algorithms, specific step by step procedures for solving certain types of problems. Insight: solution to problem suddenly comes to mind. Functional fixedness: thinking about objects only in terms of their typical uses. Mental sets: tendency for people to persist on using problem solving patterns that have worked in the past. Confirmation bias: tendency to search for evidence that fits ones beliefs while ignoring any experience or behavior in new ways.
