Psychology 3130A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Psychosis, Experimental Psychology, Mental Representation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3130A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Algorithm - algorithms are ways of solving problems that are compete and correct, but often time consuming and resource intensive. Availability heuristic - a common, cognitive heuristic that can result in a bias (availability bias). People tend to make decisions on the basis of the information that they have immediately available in consciousness or that is immediately retrievable from memory. Often this information leads to a correct judgement, but it can also lead to errors that favour information that recent and/or highly salient. Cognitive resources - an umbrella term for basic cognitive and brain processes like working memory attention. A thinking task that is said to rely heavily on cognitive resources might be one that involves a lot of concentration, effort, and memory. Dual process account - also known as dual systems theory, this is high level theory that assumes we use two broadly-defined systems of thinking.