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(Concepts, Solving Problems, Making Decisions and Forming Judgements

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Cognition   All the mental activites associated with the procesing, understanding, remembering and communicating  
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Concepts   Mental groupings of similar objects, events, and people  
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Prototypes   A mental image or best example that incorporates all the features we associate with a category  
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Algoithm   A step-by-step procedure that guarentees a solution  
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Insight   Sudden flashes of insipration  
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Conformation Bias   Our eagerness to search for information that confirms our ideas  
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Fixation   The inablity to see a problem from the fresh perspective  
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Mental Set   Our tendency to repeat solutions that have worked in the past  
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Functional Fixdness   Tendency to preceive the functions of objects as fixed and un-changing  
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Representativeness Heuristic   Judge the likelihood of things in terms of how well they represent paticular prototypes  
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Overconfidence   A tendency to overestimate the accuracy of our knowledge and judgements  
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Framing   The way an issue is posed; how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisons and judgements  
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Belief Bias   The tendency for one's preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning, sometimes by making invalid conclusions seem valid, or vaild conclusions seem invalid  
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Belief Perserverance   Clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discreditied  
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Artifical Intelligence (AI)   The science of designing and programming computer systems to do intelligent things and to simulate human thought processes, such as intuitive reasoning, learning, and understanding language  
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Computer Neutral Networks   Computer circuits that mimic the brain's interconnected neutral cells, preforming tasks such as learning to recognize visual patterns and smells  
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