PSYC 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7A: Stephen Kosslyn, Functional Fixedness, Mental Image
1 Feb 2018
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7a thinking, language, and intelligence: cognition: mental activities involved in acquiring, retaining, and using knowledge, ex. Perception, learning, and memory: thinking: the manipulation of mental representations of information in order to draw inferences and conclusions. Involves active mental processes and is often directed towards some goal, purpose, or conclusion: mental image: mental representation of objects or events that are not physically present, used to accomplish some cognitive task, ex. Writing letters: stephen kosslyn study: participants were given a fake map and was told to memorize it. Intuition: coming to a conclusion or making a judgment without conscious awareness of the thought processes involved: guidi(cid:374)g stage: perceive a patter(cid:374) i(cid:374) the i(cid:374)for(cid:373)atio(cid:374) you"re considering, but not consciously. Finding the features you want in a laptop: decisions involving uncertainty, availability heuristic: the likelihood of an event is estimated on the basis of how readily available other instances of the event are in memory, ex.
