Thinking
The mental manipulation of information.
What is thinking?
What is a heuristic?
A state of tension that occurs when a person simultaneously holds two cognitions that are psychologically inconsistent, or when a person's belief is incongruent with his or her behavior.
What is cognitive dissonance?
What is memory?
Rote repetition of material in order to maintain its availability in memory.
What is maintenance rehearsal?
Instances of a concept are more representative than others.
What is a prototype?
The drawing of conclusions or inferences from observations, facts, or assumptions.
What is reasoning?
An inferred characteristic of an individual, usually defined as the ability to profit from experience, acquire knowledge, think abstractly, act purposefully, or adapt to changes in the environment.
What is intelligence?
Confusion of imagined events with real ones or confusing an event that happened to someone else with one that happened to you.
What is confabulation?
In the encoding of information, the processing of meaning rather than simply the physical or sensory features of a stimulus.
What is deep processing?
An integrated mental network of knowledge, beliefs, and expectations concerning a particular topic or aspect of the world.
What is a cognitive schema?
A process in which opposing facts or ideas are weighed and compared with a view to determining the best solution or to resolving differences.
What is dialectical reasoning?
A general ability assumed by many theorists to underlie specific mental abilities and talents.
What is g factor?
What is explicit memory?
Strategies and tricks for improving memory, such as ROY.G.BIV.
What are mneumonics?
Mental processing occurring outside of and not available to conscious behavior.
What is nonconscious processing?
A form of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from certain premises; if the premises are true, the conclusion must be true.
What is deductive reasoning?
A measure of intelligence now derived from norms provided for standardized intelligence tests.
What is intelligence quotient (IQ)?
Memories for the performance of actions or skills ("knowing how").
What are declarative memories?
The theory that information in memory eventually disappears if it is not accessed; it applies more to short-term than to long-term memory.
What is decay theory?
Learning that occurs when you acquire knowledge about something without being aware of how you did so and without being able to state exactly what it is you have learned.
What is implicit learning?
The tendency to look for or pay attention only to information that confirms one's own belief.
What is confirmation bias?
What is stereotype theat?
Memories of personally experienced events and the contexts in which they occur.
What are episodic memories?
The inability to retrieve information because of insufficient cues for recall.
What is cue-dependent forgetting?