PSYCH-AD 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Temporal Lobe, Frontal Lobe, Aphasia
19 Aug 2016
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Problem solving strategies: trial and error, algorithms: a methodical, logical rule or step by step procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem. Confirmation bias: the tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence. Fixation: inability to see a problem from a fresh perspective. Mental set: a tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past. Intuition: an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning. Representativeness heuristic: judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, to match, particular prototypes; may lead us to ignore other relevant information. To judge the likelihood of something we intuitively compare it w our mental representation of that category. If the two match, that fact usually overrides other considerations or logic (i. e. short slim person who reads poetry: truck driver or ivy league classics professor?)
