PSYC 2600 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Field Dependence, Independent People, Pain Tolerance
19 Feb 2014
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Personalizing cognition: the scene prompted him to recall a similar event in his own life. Objectifying cognition: the scene prompted her to recall objective facts about the distribution of blood vessels in the human head. Cognition: refers to the awareness and thinking, as well as to specific, mental acts such as perceiving, attending to, interpreting, remembering, believing, judging, deciding and anticipating. Information processing: the transformation of sensory input into mental representations and the manipulation of such representations. Three levels of cognition: perception: process of imposing orders on the information received by our sense organs, ex: two people seeing the necker cube going in different directions, ex: inkblot tests. Interpretation: the making sense of, or explaining, various events in the world: conscious goals: standards and goals people develop for evaluating themselves and others. Cognition: awareness and thinking; specific mental acts such as perceiving, interpreting, remembering, believing, anticipating.
