Across
- 7. Schemas that allow for easy, fast processing of information about people, events, or groups, based on their membership in particular groups
- 9. Using information to determine if a conclusion is valid or reasonable
- 11. tendency to pay greater attention to evidence that supports their beliefs and ignore or downplay evidence that does not
- 12. Within each category, there is a best example for that category
Down
- 1. Use knowledge to determine how to move from the current state to the goal state; using good strategies for overcoming obstacles
- 2. the tendency to believe you could have predicted something after you learn the outcome
- 3. Mental structures—collections of ideas, prior knowledge, experiences—that help organize information and guide thoughts/behavior
- 4. the misperception that two chance events that happen at the same time are somehow related
- 5. Attempting to select the best alternative among several options
- 6. Mental representations that have some of the physical characteristics of objects
- 8. All concepts in a category are examples
- 10. Abstract mental representations that consist of words or ideas