PSY-200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Daniel Kahneman, Conjunction Fallacy, Semantic Network
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Language and thought- thinking, reasoning, and decision making. Cognitive psychology- the science of how we think, learn, remember and perceive. Cognition- mental processes involved in acquiring, processing, and storing information. Mental representation- structure in the mind that represents an external thing. Visual imagery- mental rotation (imagining object in a 3d space), gender difference, and testosterone. Category or schema hierarchy- concept that organizes other concepts around what they all share in common. Prototype- the best fitting example of a category ex: apple not tomato. Schemas- like categories but based on experience, organized in networks. Semantic networks- information for a concept is in one location of the network: the phonemic, semantic, and visual details of one concept are contained in the same location. Parallel distributed network/connectionist network- information for a concept is spread out over a portion of the network, these details are in different locations but all connected to one another.
