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Cognition Review

Quiz by Bill James

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17 questions
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  • Q1
    a representation of a plan or theory in the form of an outline or model
    schema
    30s
  • Q2
    Your best representation of a concept
    prototype
    30s
  • Q3
    the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.
    cognition
    30s
  • Q4
    enabling a person to discover or learn something for themselves.
    Heuristic
    30s
  • Q5
    a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to mind.
    Availability heuristic
    30s
  • Q6
    a cognitive bias in which an individual categorizes a situation based on a pattern of previous experiences or beliefs about the scenario.
    Representativeness heuristic
    30s
  • Q7
    a tendency to only see solutions that have worked in the past.
    Mental set
    30s
  • Q8
    Functional fixedness is a type of cognitive bias that involves a tendency to see objects as only working in a particular way.
    Functional fixedness
    30s
  • Q9
    the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories.
    Confirmation bias
    30s
  • Q10
    the tendency to reject convincing proof and become even more tenaciously held when the belief has been publicly announced to others
    Belief perseverance
    30s
  • Q11
    thinking in an unusual and unstereotyped way
    Divergent thinking
    30s
  • Q12
    Thinking in which ideas are examined for their logical validity or in which a set of rules is followed
    Convergent thinking
    20s
  • Q13
    any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another
    Phonemes
    30s
  • Q14
    the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning
    Semantics
    30s
  • Q15
    the smallest unit of meaning in language
    Morphemes
    30s

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