Across
- 2. Mental shortcut where people judge the likelihood of an event based on how easily examples are thought of
- 4. Mental shortcut our brains use to make decisions quickly without having all the relevant information
- 5. Best example of a category helping to recognize objects/concepts.
- 6. Exposure to a stimulus influences the responses to a following stimulus without conscious awareness
- 8. Mental framework where people approach problems based on what strategies have worked in the past
- 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.
- 11. Mental structure to help us understand how things are supposed to work
- 12. Adding new information to an existing schema
Down
- 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.
- 3. Mental shortcut leading people to estimate the likeliness of an event by comparing it to an existing stereotype
- 7. Presentation of information influences decisions
- 10. Changing an already existing schema as a result of new information