Cognition Review PT 2

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Across
  1. 2. trying possible solutions and discarding those that fail to solve the problem
  2. 4. tendency to judge the likelihood of things
  3. 6. the tendency to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments
  4. 10. the way an issue is stated.
  5. 11. conventional thinking directed toward a single correct solution
  6. 12. involves a step-by-step procedure that guarantees a solution to certain types of problems
  7. 13. estimating the probability of certain event in terms of how readily they come to mind
  8. 14. the often temporary inability to access information accompanied by a feeling that the information is in the LTM
  9. 15. the ability to think about a problem in a new and unusual ways to come up with solutions
  10. 17. Howard Gardner's theory that states we have 8 different types of intelligence
  11. 18. retrieval of information from LTM in the absence of any other information or cues
  12. 19. all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, and remembering
  13. 20. the tendency to hold onto a belief after the basis for the belief is discredited
  14. 21. the tendency to falsely report, after the event, that we correctly predicted the outcome
  15. 22. we are not able to recognize novel uses for an object because we are familiar with its common use
Down
  1. 1. better recall for information that comes at the beginning and at the end
  2. 3. the mental capacity to learn from experiences, adapt to new situations and handle abstract concepts
  3. 5. IQ for short - a measure of a person's reasoning ability
  4. 7. the sudden appearance or awareness of a solution
  5. 8. tendency to seek information that already supports our preconceptions
  6. 9. barriers to problem solving that occur when we apply only methods that have worked in the past
  7. 16. thinking that produces many alternatives or ideas