Chapter 7

________ encompasses the processes associated with perception, knowledge, problem solving, judgment, language, and memory.

Cognition

________ are categories or groupings of linguistic information, images, ideas, or memories, such as life experiences.

Concepts

Which concept is a type of mental set where you cannot perceive an object being used for something other than what it was designed for?

Functional Fixedness

8. Which term describes a communication system that uses systematic rules to organize words to transmit information from one individual to another?

language

From ________ months old, children are most capable of using simple sentences such as "I see."

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A(an) ________ is a mental construct consisting of a cluster or collection of related concepts.

Schema

From a psychological perspective, the term cognition means ________.

Thinking

What is confirmation bias?

What is confirmation bias?

A(an) ________ involves approaching a problem in a way that has worked in the past, but it is clearly no longer working.

mental set

A(an) ________ is the best example, or representation, of a concept.

prototype