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| What Are The Five Core Functions Of Thought? |
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1.)Describe
2.)Elaborate
3.)Decide
4.)Plan
5.)Act |
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| A system of formulas for drawing valid conclusions |
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| Each Stage In the Circle of Thought Takes... |
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| _____ and _____ memory play roles in Thinking |
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| _____ is required for efficient information processing |
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| Stages of Thought as An Information Processing System |
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Incoming Stimulus
Stage 1: Sensory Processing
Stage 2: Perception
Stage 3: Decision Making
Stage 4: Response Selection
Stage 5: Response Execution |
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| Define Mental Chronometry |
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| The Timing of Mental Events |
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| What Affects Reaction Time? |
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1.) Complexity of Decision
2.) Expectancy
3.) Stimulus-Response Compatibility
4.) Speed Accuracy Trade Off |
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| Shows Areas Active During Information Processing |
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| The Hippocampus is activated during.. |
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| The Frontal Lobe is activated during... |
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| Decision Making and Problem Solving |
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| What Are The Two Types of Concepts? |
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| What is a Type of Natural Concept? |
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| A concept that has all the features of another concept but is its own concept |
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Express relationships between concepts:
They May Be True Or False |
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| Generalizations about categories of objects, places, events, and people |
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| Schemas About Familiar Activities |
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| Representations of situations or objects that guide our interaction with them |
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| Mental Representations of Visual Information, which may be manipulated |
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| Mental Models of One's Own Environment |
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| Concepts That Have No Ambiguity |
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| A systematic procedure for solving a problem, a recipe or formula |
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| Define Deductive Reasoning |
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| You Use A General Rule And Apply It To Deduce Conclusions About Specific Cases |
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| What Are The Elements Of Formal Reasoning? |
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| What are common pitfalls in logical reasoning? |
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1.) Incorrect Assumptions
2.) Two Correct Assumptions That Draw Incorrect Conclusions
3.) Confirmation Bias |
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| Seeking Only Evidence Supporting Our Beliefs |
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| Define Informal Reasoning |
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| Evaluating Evidence on the basis of believability,uses heuristics aka mental shortcuts |
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| What Are The Problems of Heuristics? |
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1.) Mental Anchoring
2.) Judging something belongs to a certain group because of similarity to some group members
3.) Judgement based on ease of calling something to mind |
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| Getting Stuck on Prior Information |
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| Define Representative Heuristics |
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| Judging something belongs to a certain group because of similarity to some group members |
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| Define Availability Heuristics |
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| Judgement based on ease of calling something to mind |
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