Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Availability Heuristic, Oast House, Functional Fixedness

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas-DeHoog

Document Summary

Expresses a statement or proposition (words or sentences you hear in your mind) Images we can see, hear or feel in our mind. Most typical or familiar of a class or category. General principle to concusiona bout a specific case. If all birds lay eggs, then if a penguin is a bird then it lays eggs. *formal math and logic, concusion cant be false if x is true* Using the letters in the following phrase list as many different words as you can think of: psychology class. Without lifting your pencil from the paper, draw no more than 4 lines that will cross through all nine dots. Move 2 matchsticks to form 4 equal squares. Carrying out a sequence of transformations in order to reach a goal. Functional fixedness - tendency to percieve item in terms of most common use. Unecessary constraints - did not assume common rules.