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THINKING Flashcards

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Additive strategy

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The process of listing the attributes of each element of a decision, weighing them according to importance, adding them up, and determining which one is more appealing based on the result.

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Algorithm

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A step-by-step procedure that is guaranteed to solve a problem.

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Attitudes

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Evaluations people make about objects, ideas, events, or other people.

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Attributions

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Inferences people make about the causes of events and behavior.

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Automatic thoughts

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Self-defeating judgments people make about themselves.

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Availability heuristic

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A rule-of-thumb strategy in which people estimate probability based on how quickly they remember relevant instances of an event.

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Centration

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The tendency to focus on one aspect of a problem and ignore other key aspects.

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Cognition

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Thinking. It involves mental activities such as understanding, problem solving, decision making, and creativity.

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Cognitive development

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The development of thinking capacity.

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Cognitive schema

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A mental model of some aspect of the world.

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Concept

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A mental category that groups similar objects, events, qualities, or actions.

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Confabulation

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A phenomenon in which a person thinks he or she remembers something that did not really happen.

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Convergent thinking

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A style of thinking in which a person narrows down a list of possibilities to arrive at a single right answer.

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Creativity

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The ability to generate novel, useful ideas.

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Decentration

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The ability to focus simultaneously on several aspects of a problem.

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Decision-making

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The process of weighing alternatives and choosing among them.

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Deductive reasoning

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g - The process by which a particular conclusion is drawn from a set of general premises or statements.

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Dialectical reasoning

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A process of going back and forth between opposing points of view in order to come up with a satisfactory solution to a problem.

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Divergent thinking

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A style of thinking in which people’s thoughts go off in different directions as they try to generate many different solutions to a problem.

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External attribution

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An inference that a person’s behavior is due to situational factors. It is also called situational attribution.

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External locus of control

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The tendency to believe that circumstances are not within one’s control but rather are due to luck, fate, or other people.

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Feigned scarcity

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Implying that a product is in scarce supply, even when it is not, in order to increase demand for it.

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Fixation

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inability to progress normally from one psychosexual stage of development into another.

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Foot-in-the-door phenomenon

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The tendency to agree to a difficult request if one has first agreed to an easy request.

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Functional fixedness

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The tendency to think only of an object’s most common use in solving a problem.

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Fundamental attribution error

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The tendency to attribute other people’s behavior to internal factors such as personality traits, abilities, and feelings. It is also called correspondence bias.

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Gambler’s fallacy

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The false belief that a chance event is more likely if it hasn’t happened recently.

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Groupthink

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The tendency of a close-knit group to emphasize consensus at the expense of critical thinking and rational decision making.

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Group polarization

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The tendency for a dominant point of view in a group to be strengthened to a more extreme position after a group discussion.

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Heuristic

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A general rule of thumb that may lead to, but doesn’t guarantee, a correct solution to a problem.

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Hierarchical classification

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The ability to classify according to more than one level.

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Hindsight bias

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The tendency to interpret the past in a way that fits the present.

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Implicit attitudes

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Beliefs that are unconscious but that can still influence decisions and behavior.

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Inductive reasoning

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The drawing of a general conclusion from certain premises or statements.

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Internal attribution

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An inference that an event or a person’s behavior is due to personal factors such as traits, abilities, or feelings. It is also called dispositional attribution.

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Irreversibility

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The inability to mentally reverse an operation.

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Just world hypothesis

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The tendency to believe that the world is fair and that people get what they deserve.

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Locus of control

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People’s perception of whether or not they have control over circumstances in their lives.

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Lowball technique

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The act of making an attractive proposition and revealing its downsides only after a person has agreed to it.

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Mental set

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A tendency to use only solutions that have worked in the past.

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Moral reasoning

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The reasons and processes that cause people to think the way they do about right and wrong.

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Overconfidence effect

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The tendency for people to be too certain that their beliefs, decisions, estimates, and accuracy of recall are correct.

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Preconscious

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The part of the mind that contains information that is outside of a person’s attention, which is not currently being attended to, but which is readily accessible if needed.

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Prejudice

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A negative belief or feeling about a particular group of individuals.

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Primary process thinking

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Thinking that is irrational, illogical, and motivated by a desire of immediate gratification of impulses.

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Problem solving

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The active effort people make to achieve a goal that cannot be easily attained.

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Prototype

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A typical example of a concept.

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Representativeness heuristic

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Representativeness heuristic - A rule-of-thumb strategy that estimates the probability of an event based on how typical that event is.

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Reversibility

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The ability to reverse actions mentally.

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Risky shift

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The tendency for a dominant, risky point of view in a group to be strengthened to an even riskier position after a group discussion.

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Schema

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A mental model of an object or event that includes knowledge about it as well as beliefs and expectations.

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Secondary process thinking

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Thinking that is logical and rational.

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Self-efficacy

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Confidence in one’s ability to meet challenges effectively.

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Self-serving bias

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The tendency to attribute successes to internal factors and failures to situational factors.

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Social schemas

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Mental models that represent and categorize social events and people.

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Symbolic thought

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The ability to represent objects in terms of mental symbols.

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Transformation

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Making a series of changes to achieve a specific goal.

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Trial and error

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Trying out different solutions until one works.

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Intelligence

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The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge. It includes the ability to benefit from past experience, act purposefully, solve problems, and adapt to new situations.

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Confirmation bias

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The tendency to look for and accept evidence that supports what one wants to believe and to ignore or reject evidence that refutes those beliefs.

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Elimination by aspects

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The process of eliminating alternatives in a decision based on whether they do or do not possess aspects or attributes the decision maker has deemed necessary or desirable.

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Expected value

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The process of adding the value of a win times the probability of a win to the value of a loss times the probability of a loss in order to make a decision.

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Optimism

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The tendency to expect positive outcomes.

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Stereotypes

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Beliefs about people based on their membership in a particular group.

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Subjective utility

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The process of making a decision by estimating the personal value of a decision’s outcome.

High School Psychology 2012-2013 (20 decks)

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