AP Psychology Chapter 10: Thinking and Language Flashcards
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| 13901915376 | Cognition | all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating | 0 | |
| 13901917649 | concepts | a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people | 1 | |
| 13901929885 | prototypes | a mental image or best example of a category | 2 | |
| 13901933365 | Algorithm | a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem. Slow but accurate. | 3 | |
| 13901940357 | Heuristic | a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently. Fast but error-prone. | 4 | |
| 13901974823 | availability heuristic | estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness), we presume such events are common | 5 | |
| 13901993005 | belief bias | the tendency for one's preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning, sometimes by making invalid conclusions seem valid, or valid conclusions seem invalid | 6 | |
| 13902004877 | belief perseverance | clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited | 7 |