PSYC 1101 Chapter 8: Chapter 8
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Cognition focus on the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, and communicating. Forming concepts simplify our thinking: mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people. Prototype: a mental image or best example of a category, when our experiences don"t match up with our prototype, our category boundaries may blur. Algorithms: step by step procedures that guarantee a solution, however, it takes time and effort. Heuristics: simpler thinking strategies that allows you to make judgement and solve problems efficiently. In which, it gives us a happy sense of satisfaction. Confirmation bias: our tendency to seek evidence for our ideas more eagerly than we seek evidence against them, peter wason demonstrated in study. Fixation: an inability to come to a fresh perspective. Making good and bad decisions and judgments. Intuition is huge unconscious automatic influences are constantly affecting our judgments. Judging the likelihood of an event based on its availability in memory. Overconfidence: the tendency to overestimate our accuracy.
