PSYC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Baby Sign Language, Belief Perseverance, Availability Heuristic
22 Jan 2015
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Cognition & language - chapter 9: research suggests that you will perform better on the exam if you take it in the same room that you learned the material. This illustrates: proactive interference, retroactive interference, state dependent learning, context dependent learning. Thinking: cognitive psychology: study of mental activities & processes thinking knowing remembering communicating information, cognition. Prototypes: mental images of the best example of a concept: conceptualizing a chair, problem solving. The thinking we do in order to answer a complex question or resolve an unfavorable situation. Trial & error: trying various possible solutions, and if that fails, trying others. Pros: useful for perfecting a strategy or invention. Cons: takes a long time: algorithms: a step by step strategy for solving a problem. Cons: takes a long time: heuristics: a short-cut thinking strategy or principle. Insight: a sudden realization that leads to a solution: problem solving. Extra activity in the frontal & temporal lobe.
