PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Critical Period, Doublespeak, Morpheme

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens Pruessner

Document Summary

Cognitive psychology: concerned with study of higher mental processes such as thinking, knowing and deciding. Thinking: manipulation of information in the form of mental images or concepts. Prototype: a specific example that comes to mind when thought of a concept. Visual imagery: seeing something even though it doesn"t actually exist. Prototype matching: judging if something belongs to a concept category or not. Ways in solving a problem: algorithm systematic procedure drawing out all possible solutions. It is time consuming and doesn"t work for vast problems (chess): heuristics educated guess, not always correct. In general, better problem solvers have more information, know how to collect and organize information and are better at recognizing patterns. Framing- kahneman and tversky making decisions by presenting negative or positive outcomes. Creativity- ability to produce work that is novel and appropriate. Inclined to more divergent thinking: have high capacity of hard work, willingness to take risks and high tolerance of ambiguity and disorder.