PSYC 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Psychology
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Cognition is functional: adaptive (at individual level, species level, organized (both modular and interactive) Perception- ability to have in our minds a model of what is going on in the environment around us. Learning- ability to change what we know and how we process information over time and over experience. Memory- ability to store information about what has happened in the past to be able to access that in a way that is helpful for your immediate cognition. Inference- ability to go beyond available information and believe more information to be true than what is provided. Perspective-taking- ability to see things from another point of view rather than being grounded in our immediate perspective. Generalization- ability to see what is common/being able to use what you know about one thing and applying to another thing that is enough alike although different. Abstraction- taking a bunch of different cases and seeing what they all have in common.
