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The study of mental processes such as "attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and thinking".Much of the work derived from cognitive psychology has been integrated into various other modern disciplines of psychological study including educational psychology, social psychology, personality psychology, abnormal psychology, developmental psychology, and economics.

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A way of thinking about cause and effect in the world that is learned as part of experiencing everyday life.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

A form of pragmatic reasoning that states that if a person satisfies condition A, then they have permission to carry out action B.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

Innovation, creating novel ideas, making new connections between existing ideas. Associated with divergent rather than convergent thinking.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

Improved problem-solving performance after a delay during which the problem is temporarily set aside.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

Judging the frequency or probability of events based on their availability in memory. Events that are remembered more easily are judged as being more frequent or probable than events that are ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

Occur when a correlation between two events appears to exist, but in reality there is no correlation or it’s much weaker than it is assumed to be.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

Judging the probability that something belongs to a category based on how well it represents or matches that category. • Based on similarity and prototypicality • Judgment fails to consider base ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

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