Chapter 8.1 Thinking and Reasoning

Question 1

Thinking

Answer 1

any mental activity or processing of information. It includes learning , remembering, percieving, communicating ,believing and deciding.

Question 2

cognitive bias

Answer 2

systematic error in thinking

Question 3

representetiveness heuristic

Answer 3

heuristic that involves judging the probability of an event by its superficial similarity to a prototype

Question 4

base rate

Answer 4

how common a characteristics or behavior is in the general population

Question 5

availability heuristic

Answer 5

heuristic that involves estimating the likelihood of an occurance based on the ease with which it comes to our minds.

Question 6

hindsight bias

Answer 6

our tendency to overestimate how well we could have predicted something after it has already occured. confirmation bias.