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27 Cards in this Set
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Concepts |
Ex. Aircraft |
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Prototype |
What first comes into your head when you say something like "dog" - Abby |
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Convergent Thinking |
a whole bunch of ideas coming together |
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Divergent Thinking |
resembles creativity, expands to other types of ideas |
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Algorithms |
Step by Step, going through every solution until you find an answer, takes alot of time Ex. Reading a textbook fully |
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Heuristic |
short cut, saves alot of time, but you can skip the right answer Ex. see a black guy and say he should be on your basketball team |
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Insight |
sudden awareness and think how you will solve the problem |
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Confirmation bias |
tendency to search for information which supports your argument and ignore other evidence |
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Fixation |
failing to see things from alternate perspectives |
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Mental set |
preconceived way of thinking and doing things Ex. opening the door |
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Functional Fixedness |
thinking of things only in terms of their intended use |
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Intuition |
Your gut feeling |
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The Representative Heuristic |
judging something by how well it matches up with a prototype Ex. Is he a basketball player or a garbage man? |
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The availability heuristic |
-people are biased toward information that is easier for us to recall Ex. when something bad happens on a plane, you cannot escape it for a while |
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Overconfidence |
You do well on the practice test, so you think you will do well on the test |
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Belief Perseverance Phenomenon |
irrationally clinging to our beliefs sticking to our guns, even though we are proven wrong |
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Framing |
wording or phrasing of an issue may impact judgements and decisions Ex. you have a 10% chance of dying you have a 90% chance of living |
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Risk Averse |
when there are framed gains, conservative |
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Risk Seeking |
when framed losses, liberal |
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Phoneme |
Simplest sound unit in language Ex. Bat has B- A- T- |
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Morpheme |
Prefixes and suffixes |
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Semantics |
the meaning of words or sentences |
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Syntax |
Rules for ordering words in sentences Ex. adjectives come before nouns |
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Whorf Linguistic determinism |
it is too extreme, cannot have thought in your head until you develop language |
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Bilingual Advantage |
improved international abilities |
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Wernicke's area |
allows you to comprehend speech |
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Boca's area |
allows you to produce language |
