Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Intelligence and Personality -
Pyschology
- Cognition - the way in
which information is
processed and
manipulated in
remembering, thinking,
and knowing
- B.F. SKINNER
- AI
- Thinking - manipulating
information mentally by
forming concepts, solving
problems, making
decisions, and reflecting
in a critical or creative
manner
- Concepts are mental
categories used to
group objects, events,
and characteristics
- prototype model - people
look for "family
resemblance" with an item's
properties compared
against other items
- problem solving -
finding an appropriate
way to attain a goal
when a goal is not
readily available
- problem solving process:
find and frame problems,
develop a strategy, evaluate
solution, rethink and
redefine problem solution
- subgoals are intermediate goals or
problems that we devise to put us in a
better position for reaching a final goal or
solution
- algorithms are strategies that
guarantee a solution to a
problem
- heuristics are shortcut
strategies or guidelines that
suggest a solution to a
problem but do not
guarantee an answer
- fixation involves using a prior
strategy and failing to look at
a problem from a new
perspective
- functional fixedness - when an
individual fails to solve a
problem because they are fixed
on a thing's usual function
- reasoning is the
mental activity of
transforming mental
energy to reach a
conclusion
- inductive reasoning involves
reasoning from specific
observations to make
generalizations
- deductive reasoning is
reasoning from a general
principle that we all know to
be true to a specific instance
- decision making
involves evaluating
alternatives and
choosing among them
- automatic - processing
that is rapid, heuristic,
associative and intuitive
- controlled - slow,
effortful, analytical
- critical thinking means
thinking reflectively and
evaluating evidence
- mindfulness means being
alert and mentally present
for one's everyday activities
- open-mindedness means being
receptive to other ways of looking
at things