Cognitive Psychology Vocabulary Review

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_____________ a mental activity that goes on in the brain when a person is organizing and attempting to understand information and communicating information to others.

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Thinking

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_____________ _______________ are mental representations that stand for objects or events and have a picture-like quality.

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Mental images

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_________________ are ideas that represent a class or category of objects, events, or activities.

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Concepts

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Concepts that are defined by specific rules or features are known as ____________________ _____________.

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Formal concepts

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A concepts people form as a result of their experiences in the real world is known as a _______________ _______________.

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Natural concept

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A _____________ is an example of a concept that closely matches the defining characteristics of a concept.

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Prototype

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_____________ _______________ is the process of cognition that occurs when a goal must be reached by thinking and behaving in certain ways.

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Problem solving

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The problem-solving method in which one possible solution after another is tried until a successful one is found often takes much time and is called ____________________ _________________..

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Trial and error

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_________________ are very specific, step-by-step procedures for solving certain types of problems.

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Algorithms

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A _______________ an educated guess based on prior experiences that helps narrow down the possible solutions for a problem. Also known as a “rule of thumb.”

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Heuristic