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Define Cognition
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A general term for mental activity involved in acquiring, retaining, and using knowledge
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Define Concepts
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Mental category of objects, events or situations that share similar characteristics
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Formal vs Natural Concepts
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Formal has rules
Natural are from everyday experiences |
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Define Prototype
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Typical example of a particular concept
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Name the Problem solving strategies
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Trial and Error, Algorithms, Heuristics, Insight and Intuition
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Algorithms
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Step by step procedure
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Heuristics
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Rule of thumb strategies (general)
may not work |
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Insight and Intuition
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Sudden realization of a solution
Gut feelings |
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Obstacles to solving problems
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Functional Fixedness, Mental Set, and Persistence of unwarranted beliefs
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Persistence of unwarranted beliefs
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Believing certain ideas that close the mind to other possibilities resulting in a bias observation
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Functional fixedness
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View an object as functioning in a usual or customary way
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Mental Set
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Tendency to persist in solving problems with solutions that have worked in the past
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Define Language
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System for combining arbitrary symbols to produce an indefinite number of meaningful statements
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Characteristics
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Use of symbols, syntax, generative and displacement
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Use of symbols
Syntax Generative Displacecment |
Sounds and words
sets of rules for combining words (subject, verb, ect.) can create new and different communicate about that which is not present |
