PSYCH 111 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Kanzi, Vocal Folds, Zenon Pylyshyn
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Psychology 111 fall 2016 exam 2 review sheet and study guide. Concepts: mental groupings of similar objects, events, ideas, or people. Prototypes: mental images or best examples of a category. Mental set: a tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past. Convergent thinking: narrowing the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution. Divergent thinking and creativity: expanding the number of possible problem solutions; creative. Thinking that diverges in different directions (creativity: the ability to produce new and valuable ideas) Pictorial representations: visual representation as by photography or painting. Propositional representation: psychological theory, developed by dr. zenon pylyshyn, that mental relationships between objects are represented by symbols and not by mental images of the scene. Kosslyn"s island study: study with a little island and people have to remember details of the island.
