Unit 7 "Memory 2" [Cognitive Process] Flashcards
What are the 2 kinds of thinking?
Convergent and Divergent
A type of thinking where you only think of “One” Solution
Convergent
A type of thinking where you only think of “Many” Solution
Divergent
A formula that goes through all of the positive solutions
Algorithm
the sudden realization of a problem’s solution, “Aha moment”
Insight
the “mental shortcut”
And explain why we use this?
Heuristic
- in order to make things easy and organized in our brain
This is when we tend to only look for evidence that supports our belief and ignore the contradictory evidence
Confirmation BIas
When we only see one thing with one use. (norm)
Fixation (functional fixedness)
it’s when you continue new things, even if they don’t work anymore
Mental Set
“automatic feeling/ thoughts” as contrasted w/ conscious reasoning.
Intuition
What are the 2 types of Heuristics?
Availability Heuristics
Representativeness heuristics
when people make a judgment just because it’s recently available in their mind.
Provide example
Availability heuristics
Not riding a bike since there was an accident last time regarding riding the bike.
When people make a judgment based on a prototype that exists in the mind already(schema)
provide example
Representativeness heuristics
A guy wearing a tuxedo and carrying a briefcase= he must be a lawyer
The belief that the odds will occur given the previous series of events.
Provide example
Gambler’s Fallacy
Ex. thinking it’s gonna be green since the blue one kept occurring for the last games
When people are “super” biased on their beliefs
Overconfidence
When people maintain their beliefs/opinions even in the face of contradicting evidence.
Belief Perseverance
The way we phrase sentences is called____
How does this affect us
Framing, the way u frame things will have a huge impact whether it’s believable/ comfortable to your audience
____ is a spoken, written way of how we communicate.
And _____ is its rule
language
grammar
Explain Critical Period
A time where a species needs to learn a specific behavior/abilities
What’s the smallest unit of sound in a language?
Phoneme
What’s the smallest unit of sound w/ “meaning”?
Morpheme
This is when you’re consciously being aware of your own language
Metalinguistic awareness
when the language determines/controls our thought, and who researched it?
Linguistic Determinism
Whorf
when language influences your thinking
Linguistic influence
