PSYC-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hopi, Representativeness Heuristic, Universal Grammar
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7- cognition, language, and intelligence: fill in the following table with the correct problem solving strategy: Uses rule-of-thumb, or educated guessing based on prior experiences, to solve problems. Try multiple solutions until a correct solution is found. Sudden novel realization of the solution to a problem (the. Use step-by-step method to try every possible solution; will always produce a solution (if there is one) (cid:498)aha! (cid:499) moment: define the following terms and come up with an example of each: Representative heuristic: assumption that any object (or person) sharing characteristics with a member of a particular category is also a member of that category. Ex: whale is actually a mammal; some children might think it is a fish. Availability heuristic: estimating the frequency or likelihood of an event based on how easy it is to recall relevant information from memory or how easy it is for us to think of related example.
