Cognition: Thinking Processes and Problem Solving

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Across
  1. 2. Mental shortcut where people judge the likelihood of an event based on how easily examples are thought of
  2. 4. Mental shortcut our brains use to make decisions quickly without having all the relevant information
  3. 5. Best example of a category helping to recognize objects/concepts.
  4. 6. Exposure to a stimulus influences the responses to a following stimulus without conscious awareness
  5. 8. Mental framework where people approach problems based on what strategies have worked in the past
  6. 9. Belief that if a random event occurs more frequently than expected, it is going to happen less frequently in the future, and vice versa.
  7. 11. Mental structure to help us understand how things are supposed to work
  8. 12. Adding new information to an existing schema
Down
  1. 1. Bias where a person is reluctant to abandon a decision or project because they have invested heavily in it, even when it is clear that abandonment would be more beneficial.
  2. 3. Mental shortcut leading people to estimate the likeliness of an event by comparing it to an existing stereotype
  3. 7. Presentation of information influences decisions
  4. 10. Changing an already existing schema as a result of new information