PSYCH 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Confirmation Bias, Video Compression Picture Types, Phoneme
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Cognition: mental activity associated with processing, understanding , and communicating info. To think about so many things, we group them into concepts: mental grouping of similar objects, events, or people. Prototype: the best representation of a concept. A dog maybe a good example of the concept of four legged animals. Algorithm: a logical procedure guaranteed to solve a problem. This method is slow but less likely to make mistakes. I. e. unscramble the letters in sosia to find the word. An algorithmic approach would be to try all the possible combinations of letters. Heuristic: using rule-of-thumb strategies to solve problems and make judgements efficiently. This method is faster but more likely to make mistakes. A heuristic approach would not try combinations with 2 ss"s together. Insight: a sudden flash of inspiration and the solution to problem comes to you. Confirmation bias : you tend to look for answers that confirm your own expectations/guesses.
