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What are "concepts"? |
Ideas that represent a class or category of objects, events or activities |
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Prototypes |
A concept that closely matches the defining characteristics of that concept |
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Visual imagery? |
Descriptive language that appeals to sense of sight |
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Trial and error (slow but accurate) |
Example: you move a new couch into your house. You first try the front door and it doe not fit, then the back door but it gets stuck, yiu then move it through the double patio doors and it fits |
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Algorithm (slow+accurate) step by step procedure |
Ex:you're in a dark room and can't remember where the restroom is located well first get out of bed then make a choice:direction to walk, you reach a wall:which direction to turn, eventually you find the bathroom |
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Insight (suddenly and potentially accurate) |
Ex:2 boys born in the same month, day and year: how is that possible? Because they're triplets |
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Availability heuristics example |
Watching several TV programs on shark attacks, you start to think that it is common and now you're on vacation refusing to swim in the ocean because the probability of a shark attack is high |
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What is a mental set |
Persistent use of problem solving that has worked in the past |
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What is confirmation bias |
Occurs from direct influence I'd desire in beliefs.When people would like a certain idea to be true they end up believing it to actually be true |
