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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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Reasoning in which a conclusion follows from a consideration of evidence. • The conclusion is probably true, but it could be false.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

Reasoning involving syllogisms in which a conclusion logically follows from premises. • The conclusion is definitely true.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

A process by which people start with information and draw conclusions that go beyond that information.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

Participants in psychological experiments tend to focus on surface features in analogy problems, whereas people in the real world frequently use deeper, more structural features.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

A technique in which people compare two problems that illustrate a principle. This technique is designed to help people discover similar structural features of cases or problems.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

Changing how a problem is represented. Eg: find x from known r in circle. Gestalt psychologists also introduced the idea that restructuring is associated with insight.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

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