PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Distributed Cognition, Decision-Making, Problem Solving
10 Oct 2017
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Midterm= 10 q chapter 7/10 q chapter 8/10 q chapter 1-8 (total 30 q. ) Any mental activity or processing of information learning: remembering, perceiving, communicating, believing, deciding. Cognitive economy theory that holds that we attend to and store a manageable minimum of info, and expend as little thinking (cognitive) energy as possible to carry on with our daily lives: ex. Based on similarity of an event to another that is known: base rate, neglect, fallacy, top down vs. bottom up processing, concept, our thinking abt the obj, actions, characteristics that share core properties, ex. Motorcycle: schemas (c-7, how you learn and how you put things together, process of map, ex. Processes of selecting among a set of possible alternatives: small, daily decisions are often made quickly, implicitly (c-7) larger decisions are often more explicit (c-7) involve more analysis of pros n cons. Framing the way a question is formulated which can influence the decisions ppl make.
