THINKING, LANGUAGE, AND INTELLIGENCE

A mental category that is used to class together objects, relations, events, abstraction, ideas or qualities that have common properties

• Prototype

• Concept

• Exemplars

• Thinking

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(we tend to group concepts in heirarchies)

A concept of a category of objects or events that serves as a good example of the category

• Prototype

• Concept

• Exemplars

• Thinking

Answer explanation

(we tend to group concepts in heirarchies)

Paying attention to information representing it mentally, reasoning about it, and making Judgements and decisions about it

• Prototype

• Concept

• Exemplars

• Thinking

Answer explanation

(we tend to group concepts in heirarchies)

A specific example

• Prototype

• Concept

• Exemplars

• Thinking

Answer explanation

(we tend to group concepts in heirarchies)

Is a systematic procedure for solving a problem that works invariably when it is correctly applied. (Systematic random research)

• Understanding the Problem

• The use of algorithms

• The use of heuristic devices

• The use of analogies

Rules of thumb that help us simplify and solve problems

• Understanding the Problem

• The use of algorithms

• The use of heuristic devices

• The use of analogies

Answer explanation

Means-end analysis - an example of heuristic device

The parts of our mental representation of the problem relate to one another in a meaningful way

• Understanding the Problem

• The use of algorithms

• The use of heuristic devices

• The use of analogies

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A partial similarity among things that are different in other ways

• Understanding the Problem

• The use of algorithms

• The use of heuristic devices

• The use of analogies

Answer explanation

Three factors that can make it easier or harder to solve problems within you: level of expertise, whether you full prey to a mental set, whether you develop insight into problem.

• Expertise

• Mental sets

• Insights

• Incubation

• Functional fixedness

Answer explanation

Experts solve problems more effeciently and rapidly than novices do

The tendency to respond to a new problem with an approach that was successfully used with similar problems

• Expertise

• Mental sets

• Insights

• Incubation

• Functional fixedness

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