Psychology 2 Flashcards

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Thinking about thinking

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Metacognition

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Ability to analyze facts, generate ideas, defend opinions, etc.

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Critical Thinking

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The process of drawing interferences or conclusions from principles and evidence

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Reasoning

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Mental shortcuts that allows us to make decisions

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Heuristics

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When we estimate the probability of one event based on how typical it is of another event.

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Representative Heuristic

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