Cognition: Thinking

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Cognition Definition

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Mental associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and cmomunicating

Question 2

Concepts Definition

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Mental groupings of similar objects, events, ideas, or people (Category)

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Creativity Definition

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The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas which may be useful in solving problems

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Convergent Thinking

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• Narrows available solutions to determine the single best solution
• intelligence

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Divergent Thinking

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• Expands on the number of possible solutions
• creativity

Question 6

Algorithms

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Methodical, logical step-by-step procedure that guarantees a solution

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Heuristics

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Rules of thumb or shortcut that allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently

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Insight

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Sudden realization of a problem’s solution

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Confirmation Bias

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Search for/favor evidence that supports ideas and ignore/distrust contradictory evidence

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Fixation

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Inability to see a problem from a new perspective

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Mental Set

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Tendency to approach a problem with a mindset of what worked before

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Representative Heuristic

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Intuitively compare the likelihood of something with out prototype of that concept

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Availability Heuristic

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Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory