PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Confirmation Bias, Divergent Thinking, Organ Donation

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens C Pruessner

Document Summary

Cogniion: mental aciviies associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicaing. Concepts: mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, people. Prototypes: mental images or the best example of a category. Matching a new item to a prototype provides a quick and easy method for soring items into a categories. Placing items in a category memory shits toward category prototype. Trial and error: test trying unil inding one that works. Algorithms: methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving paricular problems. Contrasts with a speedier and more error-prone use of heurisics which may be step by step and laborious. Go in all the aisles at the supermarket . Heurisics: simple thinking strategy that oten allows us to make judgments and solve problems eiciently. Go down one category to ind the exact product at the supermarket. Insight: sudden, oten novel realizaion of soluion to a problem, contrasts with strategy-based soluions, usually striking.