PSY 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Base Rate, Satisficing, Functional Fixedness
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Attend to information that is important enough to think about. Cognition: mental activities associated with thinking, gaining knowledge, and dealing with. Tendency to respond to and to remember some stimuli more than others. All stimuli get through to a point. Automatic processes interfere with our ability to attend to others. Failure to notice stimuli b/c attention is focused elsewhere. Failure to detect changes in parts of a scene. Characterized by easy distraction, impulsiveness, moodiness, failure to follow through on plans. Evidence for genetic predisposition, but no common. Mild brain abnormalities, particularly in frontal cortex. Problems with shifting attention quickly and appropriately. More effective than drugs for improving social skills, academic. Prototype: familiar or typical example of a concept. Objects are placed in a category if they resemble . Series of interrelated items, thoughts, or concepts organized into hierarchies. Thinking of one concept primes or activates concepts associated with it.
