PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Exemplar Theory, Jargon
24 Jan 2018
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Attention - helps you focus finite material resources on key parts of the active scene. Memory - helps you recall specific thoughts and behaviours which are appropriate to. Our everyday decisions rely on quick categorization abilities. We quickly process incoming stimuli by organizing them into categories. Without ability to categorize, every decision becomes overwhelming. Classification group of dissimilar objects into the same category. Predicting uses past experiences to know what to expect. Communication uses specific words to describe ideas efficiently. Illusion of the expert -the feeling that a task must be simple for everyone because it is simple for oneself. Simple, rather than complex categories, leave us susceptible to the illusion of the expert. Dr. lee brooks experiment are there some features you can use to identify a new member of a given category e. g. people in different fields of work use different jargon to identify different things.
