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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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Reasoning involving syllogisms in which a conclusion logically follows from premises. • The conclusion is definitely true.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

Innovation, creating novel ideas, making new connections between existing ideas. Associated with divergent rather than convergent thinking.

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

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 ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

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.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

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.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

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