Chapter 10 Vocab#2

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insight

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The act or outcome of grasping the inward or hidden nature of things or of perceiving in an intuitive manner.

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reasoning

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Use of reason, especially to form conclusions, inferences, or judgments

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confirmation bias

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Confirmation bias is a phenomenon wherein decision makers have been shown to actively seek out and assign more weight to evidence that confirms their hypothesis, and ignore or underweigh evidence that could disconfirm their hypothesis.

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fixation

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an obsessive preoccupation

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functional fixedness

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cognitive bias that limits a person to using an object only in the way it is traditionally used.

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availability heuristics

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people estimate the probability of an outcome based on how easy that outcome is to imagine.

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overconfidence

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The state or quality of being impudent or arrogantly self-confident:

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framing

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process of selectively using frames to invoke a particular image or idea. This idea is often associated with a pre-conceived cultural metaphor

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belief bias

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deductive reasoning

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belief perserverance

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persistence of one's held beliefs despite evidence to the contrary