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Thinking
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Any mental activity or processing of information, including learning, remembering, perceiving, communication, believing and deceiving
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Cognitive bias
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Systematic error in thinking
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Representativeness heuristic
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Hearistic that involves judging the probability of an event by its superficial similarity to a prototype
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Base rate
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How common a characteristic or behaviour is in the general population
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Availability heuristic
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Heuristic that involves estimating the likelihood of an occurence based on the ease with which it comes to our minds
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Hindsight bias
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Our tendecy to overestimate how well we could have predicted something after it has already occured
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Concept
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Our knowledge and ideas about a set of objects, actions and characteristics that share core properties
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Decision making
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The process of selecting among a set of possible alternatives
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Framing
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The way a question is formulated that can influence the decision people make
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Problem solving
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Generating a cognitive strategy to accomplish a goal
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