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Myers PSYCHOLOGY 7th Ed

Thinking. Cognitionmental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating . Thinking. ConceptsPrototypeAlgorithmHeuristicUnscrambleS P L O Y O C H Y GAlgorithm: over 900,000 combinations. Thinking. InsightImpediments to problem solving:Confirmation BiasFixation/Mental SetFunctional Fixedness.

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Myers PSYCHOLOGY 7th Ed

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    1. Myers’ PSYCHOLOGY (7th Ed) Chapter 10 Thinking and Language James A. McCubbin, PhD Clemson University Worth Publishers

    2. Thinking Cognition mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

    3. Thinking Concepts Prototype Algorithm Heuristic Unscramble S P L O Y O C H Y G Algorithm: over 900,000 combinations

    4. Thinking Insight Impediments to problem solving: Confirmation Bias Fixation/Mental Set Functional Fixedness

    5. Heuristics Representativeness Heuristic judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes Availability Heuristic estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory

    6. Thinking Overconfidence tendency to be more confident than correct overestimate the accuracy of one’s beliefs and judgments Framing how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgments

    7. Thinking Belief Bias the tendency for one’s preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning Belief Perseverance clinging to one’s initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited

    8. Language Spoken, written, or signed words Combined to communicate meaning

    9. Language

    10. Language

    11. Language Genes design the mechanisms for a language, and experience activates them as it modifies the brain

    12. Language New language learning gets harder with age

    13. Language Linguistic Determinism Whorf”s hypothesis that language determines the way we think

    14. Animal Thinking and Language The straight-line part of the dance points in the direction of a nectar source, relative to the sun

    15. Animal Thinking and Language Gestured Communication

    16. Animal Thinking and Language Is this really language?

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