PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Functional Fixedness, Confirmation Bias, Language Development
7 Mar 2018
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Homo sapiens: wise humans: are humans inherently rational or irrational, rational: at times our behavior and thought process seems rational and reasoned. Concepts: basic building blocks of abstract thought. Refer to mental groupings of similar persons, places, ideas, events, objects. Freedom is abstract concept, happiness, peace: semantic networks. Concepts are stored in long term memory and concepts are organized in hieratical way. Built one upon another in long term memory: priming concepts. When one concept of semantic network is activated, other closely related concepts seem to pop into mind. High school, friends pop into mind, buildings, teachers. Presented participants with pairs of letter strings presented on screen, and then participants were asked whether both pairs of letter strings form words. Sometimes both pairs formed words, other times one letter string was a word, other times it was gibberish. Some trials the pairs of letter strings were semantically related other times they were not.
