COGNITION

Question 1

cognition

Answer 1

mental activities involved in solving problem

thinking, language, memory and intelligence

Question 2

heuristics

Answer 2

mental rules of thumb

-way to solve problems using estimates, shortcuts for minimal effort

Question 3

representative heuristics

Answer 3

asking yourself how similar or representative (the you want to take) is of a class of event (courses you like)

Question 4

availability heuristics

Answer 4

involves judging the likelihood that an event will happen in terms of how readily you can bring an instance of it to mind

-events that are more recent would be judge as more likely to happen than those less recent

Question 5

confirmation bias

Answer 5

people’s tendency to look for information that will support their beliefs.

Question 6

functional fixedness

Answer 6

the inability to see new uses for familiar objects

ie. unable to find screwdriver, you may not recognize that a quarter would work just as well

Question 7

grammar

Answer 7

systems of rules that allow everyone using the language to make sense of it in the same way