7B Flashcards
The mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
Cognition
A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
Concept
A mental image or best example of a category. Provide a quick and easy message for sorting items in the categories
Prototype
Methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem
Algorithm
Simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently
Heuristic
I sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem
Insight
The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas
Creativity
A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence
Confirmation bias
The inability to see your problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set
Fixation
Tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often the weather has been successful in the past
Mental set
The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions
Functional fixedness
Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent particular prototypes
Representativeness heuristic
Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory
Availability heuristic
The tendency to be more confident than correct – to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments
Overconfidence
Clinging to one’s initial conceptions after the basis on which they were were formed has been discredited
Belief perseverance