PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 27&28: Temporal Lobe, Confirmation Bias, Chapter 27

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Yen

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Cognition all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating. Prototype a mental image or best example of a category. Matching new items to a prototype provides a quick and easy method for sorting items into categories. When the answer pops into mind, we feel a happy sense of satisfaction. Solutions that worked in the past often do work on new problems. Algorithm a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem. Contrasts with the usually speedier but also more error-prone use of heuristics. Heuristic a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgment and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error-prone than algorithms. Insight a sudden realization of a problem"s solution; contrasts with strategy-based solutions. Mental set a tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past.