Unit 2.2b Vocabulary Flashcard - AP Psychology

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A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently.

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Heuristic

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A sudden realization of a problem’s solution; contrasts with strategy-based solutions.

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Insight

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A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence

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Confirmation Bias

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In cognition, the inability to see a problem from a new perspective; an obstacle to problem solving.

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Fixation

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A tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past

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Mental Set

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An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning.

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Intuition

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Judging the likelihood of events in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead us to ignore other relevant information.

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Representativeness Heuristic

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Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness), we presume such events are common.

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Availability Heuristic

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The tendency to be more confident than correct — to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments.

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Overconfidence

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Clinging to one’s initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited.

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Belief Perseverance