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What are clearly defined rules for determining membership?

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Logical Concepts

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What are concepts with poorly defined or fuzzy rules for membership?

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Natural Concepts

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What is a mental image?

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A mental picture or representation of an object or event

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What is a concept?

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Mental categories we use to group objects, events, and ideas according to their common features.

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What is problem solving?

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A form of thinking focused on finding a solution to a particular problem

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What is Eureka?

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Type experiences in which solutions just seem to suddenly pop into your mind.

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What is an algorithm?

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A step-by-step set of rules for solving a problem.

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Heuristic

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A rule of thumb for solving problems or making judgments or decisions

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What is a mental set?

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The tendency to rely on strategies that worked well in similar situations in the past.

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Functional fixedness

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The inability to see how familiar objects can be used in new ways.