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-Thinking (Comparing)
-Manipulating and transfering info into memory |
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-An internal picture (representation) of things or events
- ex: basketball players may try to produce a mental image of the crowd, court and the ball. |
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| - ideas that represent a group of similar objects, events, ideas, or people |
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-thinking and behaving in ways to reach a certain goal
- identify goals and steps eneeded to get there |
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- first type of problem solving
- aka mechanical
- trying different ways till i finally get the right one |
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- the second type of problem solving
- the step by step procedures that guarentee a solution
- ex: a formula to a math problem |
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- concepts that correspond to our mental image when someone thinks of a bird
-ex: Robbin |
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-speedier but error is easier
- educated guess based on past experience
- what will increase your chances of sucess |
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- solution comes suddenly and often
- another type of problem solving |
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- a type of probelm solving
- ability to combine behaviors in new ways- to think outside the box |
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- tendancey to search for information that supports what we already think and to ignore or distort information that contradicts our beliefs
- ex: political debates |
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- fixation
- tends to approach problems from only one way ( esp. if worked in the past)
- failure to see from new perspectives can slow problem solving down
- ex: 9 dot |
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- fixation
- tendacny to think of things only in terms of usual functions
- ex: thinking this book is something that should actually be read and not just used as a door stop |
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| - the tendancey to favor information that supports one's initial hypothesis and ignore contridictory information that supports alternative hypotheses or solutions. |
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| The Representative Heurisitic |
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| - judging how likley something is by how well it represents (matches) |
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- the easier it is to think of an example the more likely we are able to think it will happen
- yet ease may be due to vividness or personal experiences - not reality |
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- we are more often confident than we are correct
- we over estimate acuracy of our beliefs/judgment |
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| Belief preservation Phenomenon |
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- tendancy to cling to initial concepts even after basis they were formed on having been discredited
- ex: can we break away ? |
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