AP Psych Unit 2

6. Mental representations of categories of items or ideas, based on experience
7. A sudden realization of problem's solution contrasts with strategy-based solutions
12. narrowing the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution
13. involves adapting or modifying existing mental structures to accommodate new information or experiences
14. involves incorporating new information into existing knowledge or schemas
17. A cluster of knowledge about sequences of events and actions expected to occur in particular settings
18. Brain waves shown on an EEG in response to stimulation
20. General tendency to confirm what you already believe

1. Expanding the number of possible problem solutions; creative thinking that expands in different directions
2. levels of concepts from most general to most specific
3. All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
4. Faulty heuristic used by basing off an estimate on a completely unrelated quantity
5. Problem-solving procedures or formulas that guarantee a correct outcome if correctly applied
8. Cognitive strategies used as shortcuts to solve complex mental tasks; they do not guarantee a correct solution
9. effortless,immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit conscious reasoning
10. an idea or most representative example
11. After learning outcome, acting like you knew the entire time
15. inability to see a problem from a new perspective
16. the ability to produce new (novel) and valuable (useful) ideas
19. set of expectations about something