COGNITION
THINKING AND LANGUAGE
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Question
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Belief bias
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The availability heuristic
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A mental set
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The representativeness heuristic
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Detailed explanation-1: -Heuristics can be mental shortcuts that ease the cognitive load of making a decision. Examples that employ heuristics include using trial and error, a rule of thumb or an educated guess.
Detailed explanation-2: -A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound. A phoneme is the smallest unit of spoken sound and is often the one thing that distinguishes one word from another.
Detailed explanation-3: -The use of heuristics rather than algorithms is most likely to: save time in arriving at solutions to problems. Scientists are trained to carefully observe and record any research outcomes that are inconsistent with their hypothesis.
Detailed explanation-4: -Cognitive Psychology and Basic Units of Knowledge The basic units of knowledge are commonly referred to as concepts, prototypes, and schemas. Concepts are large categories of knowledge in which similar ideas are grouped together. They can be concrete (like a book) or more abstract (like anger).