Cognitive Psychology - Answers the branch of psychology that focuses on the study of higher mental
processes.
Thinking - Answers brain activity in which people mentally manipulate information including words,
visual images, sounds, or other data.
Mental Images - Answers representations in the mind of an object or event.
Concepts - Answers the mental groupings of similar objects, events, or people.
Prototypes - Answers typical, highly representative examples of a concept.
Deductive Reasoning - Answers reasoning from the general to the specific.
Inductive Reasoning - Answers reasoning from the specific to the general.
Algorithms - Answers a rule that, if applied appropriately, guarantees a solution to a problem.
Heuristic - Answers a thinking strategy that may lead to a solution but may sometimes lead to errors.
Availability Heuristic - Answers judging the probability of an event occurring on the basis of how easy it
is to think of examples.
Familiarity Heuristic - Answers leads us to prefer familiar objects, people, and things to those that are
unfamiliar or strange to us.
Present Bias - Answers the tendency to more heavily weigh options that are closer to the present than
ones further away.
Artificial Intelligence - Answers is the held that examines how to use technology to imitate human
thinking, problem solving, and creative activities.
Machine Learning - Answers AI processes immense amounts of data and makes probabilistic guesses.
Preparing - Answers to create solutions.
Producing - Answers producing the solutions.
Judging and Evaluating - Answers the solutions that have been generated.
Well-defined Problem - Answers the nature of the problem and the information needed to solve it are
available and clear.
ill-defined Problems - Answers the nature of the problem and the information needed to solve it are
unclear.
, Arrangement Problems - Answers require the problem solver to rearrange element in a way that will
satisfy a certain criterion.
Problems of Inducing Structure - Answers a person must identify the existing relationships among the
elements presented and then construct a new relationship among them.
Transformation Problems - Answers consist of an initial state, a goal state, and a method for changing
the initial state into the goal state.
Framed - Answers The way in which we represent a problem and the solution we eventually come to
depends on the way a problem is phrased.
Trial and Error - Answers Trying a variety of solutions and eliminating those that don't work.
Means-ends analysis - Answers a strategy in which a problem solver considers the ultimate goal (the
end) and determines the best strategy (the means) for attaining the goal.
Insights - Answers a sudden awareness of the relationships among various elements that had previously
appeared to be unrelated to one another.
Behavioral Economics - Answers Examining biases in decision making has influenced the development of
a new field know as behavioral economics.
Functional Fixedness - Answers the tendency to think of an object only in terms of its typical use.
Mental Set - Answers the tendency to solve problems in a certain way, based on past experiences.
Confirmation Bias - Answers the tendency to seek out and weight more heavily information that
supports one's initial hypothesis and to ignore contradictory information that supports alternative
hypothesis or solutions.
Creativity - Answers the ability to generate original ideas or solve problems in novel ways.
Divergent Thinking - Answers thinking that generates multiple and novel responses to problems or
questions.
Cognitive Complexity - Answers a preference for elaborate, intricate, and complex stimuli and thinking
patterns.
Convergent Thinking - Answers thinking in which a problem is viewed as having a single answer.
Language - Answers the communication of information through symbols arranged according to
systematic rules.
Babble - Answers meaningless, speechlike sounds made by children from the age of 3 months through 1
year.
Telegraphic Speech - Answers sentences in which only essential words are used.