PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Source Amnesia, Confirmation Bias, Benjamin Lee Whorf

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

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Introduction to psychology psyc*1000-01 lecture 14 november 1st 2016. Natural tendency to try to understand events and people; to explain and solve problems; to think! 1. 1 what is cognition: mental activities and processes associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating information. 11: concepts, which are mental groupings of similar objects, events, states, ideas, and/or people. How do we form/learn concepts: do not derive concepts from a definition that we have learned/memorized, typically derived from prototypes, mental images of the best example of a concept within a category. How do we organize concepts: categorization: create categories of objects according to a certain set of rules of by a specific definition, fit to a category is determined by comparing a target to the prototype of the category. When examples stretch the qualities associated with the prototype: 2. When the boundary between the categories of concepts is fuzzy: 3. I need to find a topic for my paper.