PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Autism Spectrum, Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Thalamus
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Individual differences one: language & problem solving, intelligence & psychological testing. Cognitive precursors: object permanence (first precursor (hiding a ball, development of concepts. Imitation : symbolic play (this idea that children will imitate like parents) In many cultures we see time running along a horizontal dimension with the past off to the left and future to the right, other cultures its vertical: that changes our thinking. You can"t because the way we communicate is with languages and thinkings) Thinking: types of thinking one model, propositional (simply when were connecting concepts, propositional thinking connecting concepts) 4 successful career, don"t know the constraints because you don"t know what is going to happen (this is harder): barriers to solving problems (we. Impose barriers even though we don"t need to) Focus pitfalls in reasoning about decisions: gambelers" fallacyjk (being trapped in the representative, gambling 1 in 14 million chance in gambling)