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