Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - American Sign Language, Implicit Learning, Kanzi

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Modularity vs connectionism: what effect does language have on our thought processes (the whorfian hypothesis. Problem-solving heuristics: representativeness heuristic particular concept used to infer how closely something or someone fits our prototype for a leads us to base judgements on the availability of information in memory, availability heuristic, confirmation bias. Problem solving: narrow things down until you get something manageable; must know goal stated. Problem solving: in addition to intentional problem solving some problems may be solved through implicit learning, implicit learning refers to knowledge which is extracted from experience without conscious effort tan may be employed to solve a problem intentionally. Implicit learning & problem solving: what follows is a brief example of an experiment which demonstrates implicit. Learning and subsequent problem solving: you will be presented with a series of letter strings to memorize. Each string will be presented for 1 second.