This type of brainstorming may hinder creativity
What is group brainstorming?
This type of reasoning starts with broad principles so that one can make logical predictions about specific cases
What is deductive reasoning?
These individuals have 10,000 hours of experience and may have advantages in solving problems
What are experts?
This heuristic involves judging events that come easily to mind as more probable and easier to recall
What is the Availability heuristic?
This type of emotion may affect one’s decisions, making those in good moods more likely to take on challenging problems
What are Incidental emotions/Affect-as information?
This type of thinking involves finding one relevant solution to an idea or a problem
What is convergent thinking?
This type of syllogism involves premises and conclusions with statements beginning with All, No, or Some
What is a categorical syllogism?
The Radiation Problem was easier to solve when people use this term
What is an analogy?
This bias occurs when people only search for information that aligns with their hypothesis and ignore other information that may refute it.
What is confirmation bias?
When decisions are framed as losses, people use this type of risk strategy
What is risk-taking strategy?
This process in the Dual Process Theory may be enhanced by daydreaming or imagination
This rule states that the probability of two events cannot be higher than the probability of single events
What is the conjunction rule?
This involves using a source problem to solve a target problem by transferring one form of the problem to another
Analogical transfer
This heuristic involves judging others based on how similar the object/person resembles one’s prototype of that category
What is the Representativeness heuristic?
This bias may make it more difficult to get people to opt-in for a decision
What is the Status quo bias?
This brain network may help during idea evaluation
What is the executive attention/control network?
This principle refers to finding instances in which the rule in the Wason four card problem is wrong.
What is the falsification principle?
This analogy helped people solve the checkerboard problem
What is the Russian Marriage Problem?
This term refers to seeing a relationship between events that is not there or is much weaker than assumed (like for superstitions).
What are illusory correlations?
This tendency is to predict that a particular loss will have a greater impact than a gain of the same size
What is risk aversion?
When participants created these, they had higher creativity because they made the objects themselves (like the generation effect)
What are preinventive forms?
When we fail to take into consideration this statistical law, we may wrongfully think that small samples are like the broader population
What is the law of large numbers?
When people set these, they are reducing the difference between the end goal state
What are subgoals/intermediate states OR means-end analysis?
This bias lead participants to reject evidence that didn’t align with their attitudes on Capital Punishment
What is the myside bias?
This part of the brain was activated when rejecting unfair offers in the ultimatum game study (Sanfrey’s experiment)
What is the right anterior insula?