Thinking and Problem Solving
A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.
What is a concept?
Not being able to see a problem from a different point of view?
What is fixedness?
What is sensory memory?
Keeping track of information without having to consciously try.
What is automatic processing?
The principle that states we will remember information at the beginning of a list best in the long-term, but immediately after learning we will remember the most recently learned in formation best.
A great/the best example of a concept.
What is a prototype?
Framing
A stage of memory with limited capacity of 5-7 items for about 30 seconds (without rehearsal).
What is short-term memory?
Having to put forth effort to process information.
The ability to identify previously learned information.
What is recognition?
Mental shortcuts that allow us to draw conclusions quickly, but don't guarantee accuracy.
What are heuristics?
The belief that one thing causes another just because they happened near each other or at the same time?
What is an illusory correlation?
An active stage of memory during which we are in the process of connecting new information with information we already know or our personal experience/history.
What is working memory?
Studying a little bit every night.
What is distributed practice?
The ability to pull information out of long-term memory.
What is recall?
Meticulous mental processes that take a long time, but guarantee that you will solve the problem.
What are algorithms?
Failing to see a way to use familiar objects in new ways.
What is functional fixedness?
A stage of memory with limitless capacity.
What is long-term memory?
What is deep processing?
What is state-dependent learning?
When I went to the cheese section Publix looking for Velveeta cheese, I was using a _________ to find it.
Holding onto wrong beliefs even after being confronted with compelling contradictory evidence.
What is belief perseverence?
The principle that we can only hold 5-7 items in our short-term memory.
What is Miller's Law?
Encoding by meaning (i.e. what category does this word belong to?).
What is semantic encoding?
Refers to the fact that you remember information best when in the same physical environment you were in when you learned it.
What is context dependent learning?