GPSY 5110 Study Guide - Functional Fixedness, Inductive Reasoning, Linguistic Determinism
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Thinking class: explain the nature of thinking. Thinking is the basis of all cognitive activities and processes, which are unique to humans. It involves manipulation and analysis of information received from the environment. It is the higher mental process through which things are manipulated and the required information is analysed. For example, while playing a video game the mind thinks of strategies or techniques to win it. Explain the role of concept in the thinking process. A concept is a mental representation of a category and refers to a class of objects, ideas or events that share common properties. It plays an important role in the thinking process as concept formation helps in organising knowledge so that it can be accessed with less time and effort: identify obstacles that one may encounter in problem solving. The obstacles that one may encounter in problem solving are as follows: (i) mental set.
