Category: Science
Created by: tim.zhaotianqi
Number of Blossarys: 40
Reasoning involving syllogisms in which a conclusion logically follows from premises. • The conclusion is definitely true.
Innovation, creating novel ideas, making new connections between existing ideas. Associated with divergent rather than convergent thinking.
Tendency to selectively look for information that might confirm your belief and overlook information that disconfirms it Wason (1960) study • Subjects shown a set of three numbers that were ...
Judging the frequency or probability of events based on their availability in memory. Events that are remembered more easily are judged as being more frequent or probable than events that are ...
Participants in psychological experiments tend to focus on surface features in analogy problems, whereas people in the real world frequently use deeper, more structural features.
A technique in which people compare two problems that illustrate a principle. This technique is designed to help people discover similar structural features of cases or problems.