front 1 Cognition | back 1 The mental processes involved in thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. |
front 2 Metacognition | back 2 Awareness and understanding of your own thought processes. |
front 3 Concepts | back 3 Mental groupings of similar objects, events, or ideas. |
front 4 Prototype | back 4 The best example or mental image of a category. |
front 5 Schemas | back 5 Frameworks that organize and interpret information. |
front 6 Assimilate | back 6 Interpret new experiences using existing schemas. |
front 7 Accomadate | back 7 Adjust or create schemas to fit new information. |
front 8 Creativity | back 8 The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas. |
front 9 Convergent | back 9 Thinking that narrows options to the single best answer. |
front 10 Divergent | back 10 Thinking that generates many possible solutions. |
front 11 Expertise | back 11 Specialized knowledge or skill in a particular area. |
front 12 Intrinsic Motivation | back 12 Desire to perform a behavior for its own sake. |
front 13 Executive Function | back 13 Higher-level cognitive processes like planning, decision-making, and self-control. |
front 14 Algorithm | back 14 A step-by-step method that guarantees a solution. |
front 15 Heuristic | back 15 A mental shortcut that speeds up problem-solving but risks error. |
front 16 Insight | back 16 A sudden realization of a problem’s solution. |
front 17 Confirmation Bias | back 17 Tendency to search for information that supports what we already believe. |
front 18 Fixation | back 18 Inability to see a problem from a new perspective. |
front 19 Mental Set | back 19 Tendency to approach problems using past strategies that worked. |
front 20 Intuition | back 20 Automatic, effortless, immediate feeling or thought. |
front 21 Representative Heuristic | back 21 Judging likelihood based on how closely something matches a prototype. |
front 22 Availability Heuristic | back 22 Estimating likelihood based on how easily examples come to mind. |
front 23 Overconfidence | back 23 Tendency to overestimate the accuracy of our judgments. |
front 24 Belief Perseverence | back 24 Holding onto beliefs even after evidence disproves them. |
front 25 Framing | back 25 The way information is presented, which can influence decisions. |
front 26 Nudge | back 26 A subtle change in presentation or structure that guides behavior without forcing it. |