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Flashcards by Grace Feakes, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Grace Feakes
about 11 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Heuristics | Enabling a person to discover/learn something for themselves |
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Analogical |
| Name 2 characteristics of analytical representation | 1. Shares properties but isn't mistaken for the thing is represents 2. Can imagine it in our heads |
| TMS | A small magnetic pulse used to disrupt processing in the brain (including processing images) |
| Analogical representation | Like the thing it represents. It creates a mental image which is determined through the senses |
| Why aren't analogical representations a replication of pictures? | The brain organises the image to remove ambiguites |
| Symoblic representation | Abstract representations combined and related to other representations |
| Word association is a type of____representation | Symbolic |
| Symbolic representation allows us the power of____. | Creativity |
| Availability heuristic | Mental shortcut that occurs when people make judgments about the probability of events by how easy it is to think of examples |
| Representiveness heuristic | Used when making judgments about the probability of an event under uncertainty |
| The fundemental problem with indirect experiences | They aren't first hand, i.e. they've been filtered from another source |
| Name 3 issues with representiveness heuristic | Often overgeneralise, rely on small samples, the cases are drawn from memory which can be unreliable |
| Type 1 thinking | Quick heuristic system |
| Type 2 thinking | Slower and more deliberate thinking |
| Relative frequencies, quantifiable info and education stem____thinking | Type 2 |
| Judgements are often made using____. | Heuristics |
| Confirmation bias | Tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses |
| General category of fallacies in which a claim is rejected due to an irrelevant fact about the person presenting it | Ad Hominem |
| A statement (as a response) that does not follow logically from/is not clearly related to anything previously said | Non sequitur |
| A mistake in reasoning | Logical fallacy |
| Analogical representations are associated with activity in the____cortex. | Sensory |
| EG(x)=p(x)G(x)+(1-p(x))L(x) | Expected gain |
| We tend to think rare events are____rare than they are. | Less |
| People reacting differently to a particular choice depending on whether it is presented as a loss or as a gain | Framing effect |
| The central importance in problem solving | Setting goals |
| Goals can be____defined or____defined. | Well, ill |
| How can goals be tackled more easily | Through breaking them down into sub-goals |
| Mental set | The tendency to get stuck in the same method of doing things |
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