PSYC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Postal Worker, Problem Solving, Cognitive Psychology
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What is thinking: cognition (aka thinking): mental activity that goes on in the brain when a person is organizing and attempting to understand and/or communicate information to others. Making decisions, comparing things, solving problems : the mental manipulation of representation of information we encounter in our environments, system 1 and system 2. Thinking is governed by the interplay between the two systems. Involves making quick decisions and using cognitive shortcuts. Guided by our innate abilities and personal experiences. More dependent on our formal educational experiences. Nature of thought or the processes involved in thinking (talked about below: how well people think. Concepts: ideas that represent a class or group of objects, events or activities that share common characteristics or attributes. Contain the important feature of the objects or events people think about. Each member of the concept meets all the rules (or has all the defining properties), and no nonmember does.
