Focus on the thinking sections of the chapter.
What is cognition?
Describe and give examples of three theories of how people make cognitive categories:
- Family resemblance
- Prototypes
- Exemplars
When it comes to making judgments and decisions, we often use heuristics or have biases. Describe and be able to give/recognize examples of these biases/heuristics:
- Using probabilities vs. frequencies
- The availability bias
- The conjunction fallacy
- The representativeness heuristic
- Framing effects
- The sunk-cost fallacy
- The optimism bias
- Belief perseverance
- Confirmation bias