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Chapter 7: Cognition Flashcards

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What is mental imagery?

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Representations that stand for objects or events and have picture-like quality

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Give and example of mental imagery

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Map of locations (mountains, rocks, villages, etc.)

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What are concepts?

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Ideas that represent a class or category of objects, events, and activities

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What are superordinate concepts?

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Most general form of a concept, members are minimally similar

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Give an example of a superordinate concept

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Furniture

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What are basic concepts?

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Highest class that can be represented by a single mental image

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What are subordinate concepts?

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Members are less distinct from one another

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Give an example of a basic concept

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Chair

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Give an example of a subordinate concept

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Rocking chair

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What are formal concepts?

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Defined by specific rules or features

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Give an example of a formal concept

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A square has 4 equal sides, and 4 90 degree angles

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What are natural concepts?

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Formed as a result of experience in the real world

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Give an example of a natural concept

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Is a platypus a bird or a fish? We would not know if we wouldn’t have been taught it

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What is problem solving?

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Thinking and behaving in certain ways to reach a goal

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What is trial and error problem solving?

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Trying one possible solution after another until a successful one is found

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Give an example of trial and error problem solving

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Trying to log in into a website account with different passwords

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What is algorithm problem solving?

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Step by step strategies that guarantee a solution, but may be time-consuming

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Give an example of algorithm problem solving

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Solving a derivative in calculus using chain rule

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What is heuristic problem solving?

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Saving time by skipping steps to solve a problem, may not lead to solution

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Give an example of heuristic problem solving

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Looking for your keys in a house by only looking in places your keys would accurately be in

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What is means-end analysis?

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Breaking down a large goal into smaller, more manageable goals

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Give an example of means-end analysis

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Essay due: research –> making outline –> writing intro paragraph –> essay

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What is working backwards?

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Starting with desired outcome and working backwards to current situation

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Give an example of working backwards

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Going to college to get a degree to become nurse

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What is searching for analogies?

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Employ same kind of strategies used to solve similar problems

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Give example of searching for analogies

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Fixing NASA telescope to get clearer, better quality pictures

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What is modifying your representation of the problem?

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Focusing on different aspects of the problem

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Give an example of modifying your representation of the problem

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Landing Apollo 13 by focusing on what parts of the shuttle were working, not ones that weren’t

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_____ amounts of knowledge an expert has about their area increases their ______ ______.

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Enormous, chunking capacity

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What is insight?

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“Sudden” realization regarding the solution to a problem, “AHA moment”

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What is the process of the aha moment?

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Alter assumptions about solutions, conceive of problem differently, and receive new connections among facts

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What is functional fixedness?

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Failure to use familiar objects in novel ways

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Give example of functional fixedness

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Using a shoe to put a nail in the wall if you don’t have a hammer

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What is mental set?

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Tendency to persist in using problem-solving patterns that have worked in the past

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What are availability heuristics?

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Making judgements about certain outcomes based on how easily we can produce examples of outcome

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Give an example of availability heuristics

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Wanting to buy the same kind of car as your friend, but your friend says the gas mileage is not good so you do not buy the car

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What are representativeness heuristics?

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Judging probability based one how well an option seems to exhibit representative characteristics

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Give an example of representativeness heuristics

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Base rate

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What is base rate?

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Prevalence of a trait in the target population

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Give an example of base rate

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Do plumbers or librarians write more poetry? Plumbers do because there are more plumbers in the population than librarians though they would write more poetry

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What is the gambler’s fallacy?

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Mistaken belief that the probabilities of independent events are actually related

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Give an example of the gambler’s fallacy

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Flipping a coin and thinking it’s going to land on tails because it has landed on tails the past two times even tho the coin is always going to land on heads/tails 50% of the time

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What is anchoring and adjustment?

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Establishing baseline for evaluation and adjusting one’s judgment according to that baseline

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Give an example of anchoring and adjustment

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Asking subjects how long they think the Mississippi River is after giving them two different baselines

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What is overconfidence?

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People’s confidence in their own knowledge and ability exceeds their actual knowledge and ability

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Give an example of overconfidence

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Putting on makeup in the car because they believe that they are a good enough driver to do so

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What is confirmation bias?

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We tend to see what we expect to see because we tend to search only for evidence that supports their hunch (not contradicts)

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Give an example of confirmation bias

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Believing in having a “hot hand” in basketball, cannot miss a shot and disregarding scientific evidence that a “hot hand” cannot exist

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What is decision making?

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Evaluating alternative actions and choosing the appropriate one

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What is bounded rationality?

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When we cannot know everything there is to know about a situation, we are rational within the boundaries of knowledge

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What is elimination by aspects?

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Focusing on key aspects and eliminating all alternatives that do not meet criteria

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Give an example of elimination by aspects

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Buying a house based on price, age of house, etc.

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What is satisficing?

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Choosing the first alternative that satisfies our needs

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Give an example of satisficing

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Buying the first house that meets criteria without looking at all options

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What is creativity?

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Solving problems by combining ideas and behavior in new ways

53
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What is convergent production?

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Correct response

54
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What is divergent production?

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Possible response

55
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Creativity may be _____ through training

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Improved

56
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What are creative characteristics?

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Above average intelligence, not afraid to be different, and value independence

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