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Undergraduate (Thinking) Psychology Fichas sobre Thinking, creado por Grace Feakes el 04/12/2013.
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Heuristics Enabling a person to discover/learn something for themselves
Analogical
Name 2 characteristics of analytical representation 1. Shares properties but isn't mistaken for the thing is represents 2. Can imagine it in our heads
TMS A small magnetic pulse used to disrupt processing in the brain (including processing images)
Analogical representation Like the thing it represents. It creates a mental image which is determined through the senses
Why aren't analogical representations a replication of pictures? The brain organises the image to remove ambiguites
Symoblic representation Abstract representations combined and related to other representations
Word association is a type of____representation Symbolic
Symbolic representation allows us the power of____. Creativity
Availability heuristic Mental shortcut that occurs when people make judgments about the probability of events by how easy it is to think of examples
Representiveness heuristic Used when making judgments about the probability of an event under uncertainty
The fundemental problem with indirect experiences They aren't first hand, i.e. they've been filtered from another source
Name 3 issues with representiveness heuristic Often overgeneralise, rely on small samples, the cases are drawn from memory which can be unreliable
Type 1 thinking Quick heuristic system
Type 2 thinking Slower and more deliberate thinking
Relative frequencies, quantifiable info and education stem____thinking Type 2
Judgements are often made using____. Heuristics
Confirmation bias Tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses
General category of fallacies in which a claim is rejected due to an irrelevant fact about the person presenting it Ad Hominem
A statement (as a response) that does not follow logically from/is not clearly related to anything previously said Non sequitur
A mistake in reasoning Logical fallacy
Analogical representations are associated with activity in the____cortex. Sensory
EG(x)=p(x)G(x)+(1-p(x))L(x) Expected gain
We tend to think rare events are____rare than they are. Less
People reacting differently to a particular choice depending on whether it is presented as a loss or as a gain Framing effect
The central importance in problem solving Setting goals
Goals can be____defined or____defined. Well, ill
How can goals be tackled more easily Through breaking them down into sub-goals
Mental set The tendency to get stuck in the same method of doing things
Two alternative force task
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