General
Mental Categories
Strategies
100
Mental Activities involved in using and retaining knowledge.
What is cognition?
100
Mental Category of objects or ideas based on properties they share.
What is concept?
100
Thinking and behavior directed toward attaining a goal that is not readily available.
What is Problem-Solving?
200
Manipulation of mental information in order to draw inferences.
What is thinking?
200
Mental Category that is formed by learning the rules or features that define it.
What is Formal Concept?
200
Problem-solving strategy that involves attempting different solutions and eliminating those that don's work.
What is Trial and error?
300
Mental Representation of non-physical objects or events.
What is Mental Image?
300
Mental Category that is formed as a result of everyday experiences.
What is Natural Concept?
300
A sudden realization.
What is insight?
400
The most typical instance in a particular concept.
What is prototype?
400
Problem-solving strategy that involves following a specific procedure.
What is algorithm?
400
coming to an conclusion without consciously being aware.
What is Intuition?
500
Individual instances of a concept or category, held in memory.
What is exemplars?
500
Tendency to view objects as functioning only in their usual or customary way.
What is functional fixedness?
500
Problem-solving strategy that involves following a specific rule of thumb.
What is heuristic?
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