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The study of mental processes such as "attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and thinking".Much of the work derived from cognitive psychology has been integrated into various other modern disciplines of psychological study including educational psychology, social psychology, personality psychology, abnormal psychology, developmental psychology, and economics.

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A decision-making strategy that is governed by the idea of taking risks. Often used when a problem is stated in terms of losses.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

A decision-making strategy that is governed by the idea of avoiding risks. Often used when a problem is stated in terms of gains.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

Based on the assumption that people are basically rational, so if they have all of the relevant information, they will make a decision that results in the maximum expected utility (outcome that ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

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 ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

Mistaken belief that the probability of a random event in the short run will match its probability in the long run.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

The larger the sample size, the more representative a sample will be of the population from which it was chosen Eg: larger hospital: 45 babies are born each day; smaller hospital, 15 babies. Over a ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

Judging the probability that something belongs to a category based on how well it represents or matches that category. • Based on similarity and prototypicality • Judgment fails to consider base ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

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