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Chapter 10: Thinking
(Concepts, Solving Problems, Making Decisions and Forming Judgements
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cognition | All the mental activites associated with the procesing, understanding, remembering and communicating |
| Concepts | Mental groupings of similar objects, events, and people |
| Prototypes | A mental image or best example that incorporates all the features we associate with a category |
| Algoithm | A step-by-step procedure that guarentees a solution |
| Insight | Sudden flashes of insipration |
| Conformation Bias | Our eagerness to search for information that confirms our ideas |
| Fixation | The inablity to see a problem from the fresh perspective |
| Mental Set | Our tendency to repeat solutions that have worked in the past |
| Functional Fixdness | Tendency to preceive the functions of objects as fixed and un-changing |
| Representativeness Heuristic | Judge the likelihood of things in terms of how well they represent paticular prototypes |
| Overconfidence | A tendency to overestimate the accuracy of our knowledge and judgements |
| Framing | The way an issue is posed; how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisons and judgements |
| 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 |
| Belief Perserverance | Clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discreditied |
| 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 |
| Computer Neutral Networks | Computer circuits that mimic the brain's interconnected neutral cells, preforming tasks such as learning to recognize visual patterns and smells |