AP PSYCHOLOGY

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COGNITION

THINKING AND LANGUAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
When asked about foods for camping you think the best thing to eat is smores. This best example of camping food is your
A
algorithm for camping foods
B
fixation for camping foods
C
prototype for camping foods
D
intuition for camping foods
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -heuristics: Shortcut strategies or guidelines that suggest a solution to a problem but do not guarantee an answer. hindsight bias: The tendency to report falsely, after the fact, that one has accurately predicted an outcome.

Detailed explanation-2: -A heuristic is a rule-of-thumb, or a guide toward what behavior is appropriate for a certain situation. Heuristics are also known as “mental shortcuts” (Kahneman, 2011).

Detailed explanation-3: -Concepts are the building blocks of thoughts. Consequently, they are crucial to such psychological processes as categorization, inference, memory, learning, and decision-making. This much is relatively uncontroversial.

Detailed explanation-4: -problem solving The mental process of finding an appropriate way to attain a goal when the goal is not readily available.

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