PSYC 2000 Chapter : Chapter 7 Part 1
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Provide clues about how to react to a particular object or experience: examples: fruit. Important: different levels of concepts, superordinate concept. Examples: fruit: basic level type, subordinate concept. A type of concept around which other similar concepts are organized. Physical apperance: can be used or misused to create and sustain stereotypes, example: old man in picture, availability heuristic, a prediction about the probability of an event based on: ease of recalling or imaging similar events, example: Hearing about a plane crash right before get on a plane and decide not to go and you drive instead and get into a car crash. When someone fails to solve a problem because: only think about objects in terms of their typical function, when problem solving fails, functional fixedness. Example: when problem solving fails, mental sets. The tendency for people to: persist in solving patterns that have worked for you in the past.
