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| all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. |
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| a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people. |
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| a metal image or best example of a category. |
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| a methodical, logical rule or proceedure that guarentees solving a particular problem. |
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| a simple thinking stategy that allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error-prone than algorithms. |
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| a sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem; it contrasts with strategy-based solutions. |
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| the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas. |
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| a tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions. |
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| according to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, where conflicts were unsolved. |
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| a tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, especially a way that has beem successful in the past but may or may not be helpful in solving a new problem. |
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| the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; as i,pediment to problem solving. |
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| judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead one to ignore other relevant information. |
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| estimating the likelihood of events based on their availibility in memory, if instances come readily to mind, we pressume such events are common |
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| the tendency to be more confident than correct-to overestimate the accuracy of one's beliefs and judgements. |
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| clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited. |
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| the way an issue is posed. |
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| is a spoken language, the smallest distinctive sound unit. |
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| in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or part of a word. |
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