DC Psychology Chapter 9 Set 1

How information is processed and manipulated in remembering, thinking, and knowing.

• Cognition

• Artificial Intelligence

• Problem Development

• Fixation

making a prediction about the probability of an event based on recalling or imagining similar events.

• Availability heuristic

• Hindsight bias

• Overconfidence

• Belief Perseverance

The tendency to search for and use information that supports ideas rather than refutes them.

• Confirmation bias

• Overconfidence Bias

• Belief Perseverance

• Availability Heuristic

The tendency to hold on to a belief in the face of contradictory evidence

• Belief Perseverance

• Confirmation Bias

• Hindsight Bias

• Availability Heuristic

People sometimes make a faulty decision based on how well something matches a prototype.

• Representative Heuristic

• Availability Heuristic

• Hindsight Bias

• Overconfidence Bias

The set of rules for combining words to form acceptable phrases and sentences.

• Syntax

• Semantics

• Phonology

• Morphology

A language's sound system.

• Phonology

• Morphology

• Syntax

• Semantics

A Language's rules for word formation.

• Phonology

• Morphology

• Syntax

• Semantics

How information is processed and manipulated in remembering, thinking, and knowing.

• cognition

• Concepts

• Subgoaling

• Classical Model

All instances of concepts share defining properties.

• Classical Model

• Prototype Model