involves changing and reorganizing the information stored in memory to create new or transformed information, such as creative problem solving strategies
What is thinking?
100
a systematic and logical attempt to reach a specific goal or answer
What is directed or convergent thinking?
100
rule-of-thumb problem solving strategy
What is heuristics?
100
the capacity to use information and/or abilities in a new and original way
What is creativity?
100
the expression of ideas through symbols and sounds that are arranged according to rules
What is language?
200
a visual, mental representation of an event or object
What is an image?
200
free flow of thoughts with no particular plan and depends on images
What is nondirected or divergent thinking?
200
a habitual strategy or pattern of problem solving
What is a mental set?
200
the ability to overcome rigidity
What flexibility?
200
smallest units of sound in human language
What is phonemes?
300
an abstract unit of thought that represents an object or quality
What is a symbol?
300
thinking about thinking
What is metacognition?
300
the inability to imagine new functions for familiar objects
What is functional fixedness?
300
rearranging the elements of a problem to arrive at an original solution
What is recombination?
300
smallest unit of meaning in any given language
What is morphemes?
400
a label for a class of objects or events that have at least one attribute in common
What is a concept?
400
a statement of relation between concepts
What is a rule?
400
making decisions based oin certain ideas or standards important to us
What is anchoring heuristics?
400
the apparent sudden realization of the solution to a problem; the "aha" effect
What is realization?
400
language rules that govern how words can be combined to form meaningful phrases and sentences
What is syntax?
500
a representative example of a concept
What is a prototype?
500
a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem
What is an algorithm?
500
assuming if an item is similar to members of a particular category, it's probably a member of that category
What is representativeness heuristic?
500
who said this regarding creativity--"if I had seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"?