Thinking Problem Solving Creativity and Language
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| 9207088268 | cognition | all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. |  | 0 |
| 9207088269 | Concept | a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people |  | 1 |
| 9207088270 | Prototype | a standard or typical example (Is that a computer screen that BENDS?!) |  | 2 |
| 9207088271 | algorithm | a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem |  | 3 |
| 9207088272 | Heuristic | a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem |  | 4 |
| 9207088273 | Insight | A cognitive form of learning involving the mental rearragnment or restructuring of the elements in a problem to achieve an understanding or the problem and arrive at a solution |  | 5 |
| 9207088274 | Creativity | the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas |  | 6 |
| 9207088275 | Confirmation bias | a tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions |  | 7 |
| 9207088276 | fixation | the inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set |  | 8 |
| 9207088277 | Mental Set | a tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past |  | 9 |
| 9207088278 | Functional fixedness | the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving (Is a shoe just a shoe?) |  | 10 |
| 9207088279 | Representative heuristic | judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead one to ignore other relevent information |  | 11 |
| 9207088280 | Availability heuristic | estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we presume such events are common |  | 12 |
| 9207088281 | Overconfidence | total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant |  | 13 |
| 9207088282 | Belief Perseverance | clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited |  | 14 |
| 9207088283 | Intuition | instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes) |  | 15 |
| 9207088284 | Framing | the way an issue is posed |  | 16 |
