PSYC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Standard Deviation, Confirmation Bias, Language Production
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Mental activity that goes on in the brain when a person is processing information: mental images. Mental representations that stand for objects or events and have a picture-like quality. One possible solution after another is tried until a successful one is found: algorithms. Very specific, step-by-step procedures for solving problems. Heuristic: an educated guess based on prior experiences that helps narrow down the possible solutions for a problem, rule of thumb , a cognitive ____ . Representativeness heuristic: tendency to judge an event by the extent to which it shares characteristics with the typical case, let probability statistics be your guide! Insight: video, sudden realization of a solution to a problem. Barriers to problem solving: functional fixedness. Thinking about objects only in terms of their typical functions: mental sets. The tendency for people to persist in using problem-solving patterns that have worked for them in the past: confirmation bias.
