PSYC 1010 Lecture 12: Lec #12

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

One type of cognitive activity is developing a concept! Concept is a grouping of things that has some underlying similarity: it represents a category related things, ex chairs (of ce chair, rocking chairs, ex birds (mocking jay, blue birds, etc. , ex. Evaluated on what you"ve learned (tests, assignments, exams etc. ) Forming concepts is very hard: they are usually based on our experiences (wether they are positive or negative, ex dad and kid see a dog and dad says dog . Dad and kid see cat and kid says dog but dad says cat (now concept based on size) Prototype: is an ideal model or best example of a particular concept: ex. of prototype of bird is like robin. What helps us solve a problem: 1. Randomly try out things in hopes that you will stumble across the right answer: 2. Sudden realization (a ha phenomena: 3.