Cognition 1
mental set
When you think of a bird you think of a sparrow, and not a penguin
prototype
being able to access the information without being cued
recall
process where our brains convert short term memories into long term ones
memory consolidation
smallest meaningful unit of sound and language
phonemes
view problems only in their customary manner
functional fixedness
narrowing the available solutions to come up with one
convergent thinking
identifying information after experiencing it again (MCT)
when we try to retrieve a long list of words we usually recall the last words and first words best
morphemes
searching for information that supports our preconceptions and ignores condradictions
confirmation bias
able to create new ideas
creativity
learning something for the second time
relearning
better recall of the first items from greater rehersal
primary effect
babbling stage
favoring the first information offered
anchoring effect
an automatic feeling or thought to solve a problem
intuition
putting information into the memory system
encoding
recency effect
sounds fluent but makes no sense
wernickes aphasia
presenting an idea in a specific way
framing
People fly less and drive more after a plane crash, even though more people die in car accidents per year.
availability heuristic
ability to make sense of several incoming stimuli at the same time
parallel processing
when a memory was never formed in the 1st place
encoding failure
lack of fluency, struggles to find words, but makes sense (stroke patients)
Borcas aphasia