Chapter Seven: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language Flashcards
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Cognition
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the way in which information is processed and manipulated in remembering, thinking, and knowing.
2
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Prototype Model
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emphasizes that when people evaluate whether a given item reflects a certain concept, they compare the item with the most typical items in that category and look for “family resemblance” with that items properties.
3
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Inductive Reasoning
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reasoning from specific observations to make generalizations.
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Deductive Reasoning
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reasoning from a general case that we know to be true to a specific instance.
