PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Martha Graham, Representativeness Heuristic, Savant Syndrome

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Lecture 8 textbook notes : thinking and intelligence (modules 27, Cogniion: mental aciviies associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicaing. Concepts: mental groupings of similar objects, events, ideas, and people. Prototypes: a mental image or best example that incorporates all the features we associate with a category. Once we place an item in a category, our memory of it later shits toward the category prototype. Algorithm: methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a paricular problem. Heurisic: a simple thinking strategy that oten allows us to make judgments and solve problems eiciently; usually speedier but also more error-prone than algorithms. Insight: a sudden and oten novel realizaion of the soluion to a problem; contrasts with strategy-based soluions. Conirmaion bias: tendency to search for informaion that supports our preconcepions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence. Fixaion: the inability to see a problem from a new perspecive, by employing a diferent mental set.