PSYC 2000 LSU Tucker Exam 3 Questions and Answers 100% Pass

PSYC 2000 LSU Tucker Exam 3 Questions and Answers 100% Pass The nature of thought or the processes involved in thinking - "How people think" Variations among people in thinking ability - "How well people think" Mental Images - Mental representations that stand for objects or events and have a picture-like quality - interacted with in similar ways as physical objects - helpful for memory and learning or maintaining motor skills Concept - ideas that represent a class or group of objects, events, or activities that share common characteristics or attributes - contain important features of the objects or events people think about - allow for the identification of new objects and events that may fit Formal Concepts - concepts formed by learning the specific rules of features that define it (acquired in school) EX: A square 2Brittie Donald, All Rights Reserved © 2025 Natural Concepts - concepts formed as a result of people's experience in the real world (we form these concepts and a general set of features) EX: birds, fruits Prototype - An example that closely matches the defining characteristics (or common features) of a concept 1. the exposure a person has to objects in a category 2. the knowledge a person has about objects in a category 3. the culture of a person - Prototypes develop according to.. Decision Making - process of evaluating alternatives and choosing among them Problem Solving - the thoughts and actions required to achieve a certain goal Trial and Error - - Mechanical Solution - One possible solution after another is tried until a successful one is found Algorithms - - very specific, step-by-step procedures for solving problems - always result in the correct answer (mathematical formulas) Heuristic - an educated guess based on prior experience that helps narrow down the possible solutions for a problem - "Rule of Thumb", cognitive "shortcut" 3Brittie Donald, All Rights Reserved © 2025 Representativeness Heuristic - Tendency to judge an event by the extent to which it resembles the typical case - Older lady = perceive them to have granny-like qualities Availability Heuristic - Estimating the frequency or likelihood based on how easy it is to recall relevant info from memory or how easy it is to think of related examples ("pop into your head" if you've been recently thinking about it) Insight - a sudden perception of a solution to a problem "a-ha!" moment Functional Fixedness - thinking about objects only in terms of their typical functions Mental Set - the tendency for people to persist in using problem-solving patterns that have worked for them in the past Confirmation Bias - the tendency to search for evidence that fits one's beliefs while ignoring any evidence that does not fit those beliefs - horoscopes - vaccines and autism Creativity - the ability to produce ideas that are both novel and valuable 4Brittie Donald, All Rights Reserved © 2025 Convergent Thinking - type of thinking in which a problem is seen as having one answer, and all lines of thinking will eventually lead to that single answer by using pervious knowledge and logic Divergent Thinking ( a kind of creativity ) - type of thinking in which a person starts from one point and comes up with many different ideas or possibilities based on that point Intelligence - the ability to learn from experience, acquire knowledge, and use resources in adapting to new situations or solving probl