Psychology 2135A/B Lecture 19: Lecture 19 cog psych

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Minda

Document Summary

Expertise: we can become an expert after doing something for a long time, like reading, but we don"t think about it like being an expert because most people can do this. What is an expert: erickson says that expertise must pass three tests. First, it must lead to performance that is consistently superior to that of peers. Brain surgeons must not only be skillful with a scalpel but also must have successful outcomes with their patients. A chess player must be able to win matches in tournaments. More readily change an ill-defined problem to a well-defined problem: simply knows the answer to many familiar problems, has lots of prior experience, need not start from scratch solving problems. If the pieces were in a game like position, if you are an expert you would recognize this as a game. Rabinowitz and hogan: expertise, statistics and classification, graduate students in statistics, statistics problems, deep matches: type of test, surface matches: cover story.