1. + Cognition

2. + Cognition: Thinking All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

3. + Organizing Information: Concepts and Prototypes Chair ReclinerStoolDesk Bird Color Triangle Motor vehicle A sentence A heroic action A game A philosopher A writer Concepts Draw or describe each of the following

4. + Solving Problems 1) Heuristics and Algorithms: The first one to figure out my password gets an automatic 100% on the next test. How will go about solving this problem? 2) Insight: Something extraordinarily unusual happened on the 6 th of May, 1978, at 12:34pm. What was it? Can you translate the following into a sentence? 100204180 What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years? Can you translate the following? YYURYYUBICURYY4ME

5. + Creativity—TED TALK-RobinsonTED TALK When I say go, think of as many uses as you can for a paperclip (2 minutes) Add up your total number of uses and divide by two (giving you an average number/minute score Average score: 4 (8 is unusually high, 12 is very rare, and 16 makes you better than one in a thousand. Try to think of 4-8 things that might happen if we suddenly had three arms:

6. + Why we’re not very good at it sometimes... Fixation—inability to see a problem from a fresh perspective Functional Fixedness exampes Confirmation Bias: Political connections

7. + Heuristics: Mental Shortcuts 1) Representative 2) Availability 3) Anchoring

8. + Representative Heuristic Representative Heuristic: To judge the likelihood of things in terms of how well they represent particular prototypes Linda is 31, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy in college. As a student, she was deeply concerned with discrimination and other social issues, and she participated in antinuclear demonstrations. Which statement is more likely? A. Linda is a bank teller B. Linda is a bank teller and active in the feminist movement. Aka...stereotyping...we judge people by the likelihood that they fit our representation of groups to which we feel they should belong.

9. + Complete handout 7B Availability Heuristic: when we base our judgments on how mentally available information is.

10. + Write down the last two digits of your student number Estimate the price you would be willing to pay for the following items...

11. + 1 lb. of Belgian Chocolates

12. + Prana Yoga Mat

13. + Adobe create software

14. + Bamboo plant

15. + Anchoring Heuristic Organize yourselves in the following categories SS # 01-40 SS # 41-70 SS # 71-99 Average your estimates for each item

16. + Extra help on heuristics... http://www.thepsychfiles.com/2011/06/heuristics-video- rules-of-thumb-explained-episode-151/