Creativity is the best
Reasoning is hard
Problem Solving
Heuristics & Biases
Decisions decisions decisions
200

This type of brainstorming may hinder creativity

What is group brainstorming?

200

This type of reasoning starts with broad principles so that one can make logical predictions about specific cases

What is deductive reasoning?

200

These individuals have 10,000 hours of experience and may have advantages in solving problems

What are experts?

200

This heuristic involves judging events that come easily to mind as more probable and easier to recall

What is the Availability heuristic?

200

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?

400

This type of thinking involves finding one relevant solution to an idea or a problem

What is convergent thinking?

400

This type of syllogism involves premises and conclusions with statements beginning with All, No, or Some

What is a categorical syllogism?

400

The Radiation Problem was easier to solve when people use this term

What is an analogy?

400

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?

400

When decisions are framed as losses, people use this type of risk strategy

What is risk-taking strategy?

600

This process in the Dual Process Theory may be enhanced by daydreaming or imagination

What is the generative process?
600

This rule states that the probability of two events cannot be higher than the probability of single events

What is the conjunction rule?

600

This involves using a source problem to solve a target problem by transferring one form of the problem to another

Analogical transfer

600

This heuristic involves judging others based on how similar the object/person resembles one’s prototype of that category

What is the Representativeness heuristic?

600

This bias may make it more difficult to get people to opt-in for a decision

What is the Status quo bias?

800

This brain network may help during idea evaluation

What is the executive attention/control network?

800

This principle refers to finding instances in which the rule in the Wason four card problem is wrong.

What is the falsification principle?

800

This analogy helped people solve the checkerboard problem

What is the Russian Marriage Problem?

800

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?

800

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?

1000

When participants created these, they had higher creativity because they made the objects themselves (like the generation effect)

What are preinventive forms?

1000

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?

1000

When people set these, they are reducing the difference between the end goal state

What are subgoals/intermediate states OR means-end analysis?

1000

This bias lead participants to reject evidence that didn’t align with their attitudes on Capital Punishment

What is the myside bias?

1000

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?