PSY 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Factor Analysis, Nonconformist, Motivation
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Chapter 9- thinking & intelligence the study of perception, learning, memory, and thought: the study of how people attend to acquire, transform, store, and retrieve knowledge. Cognition: mental processes involved in gaining knowledge. Integrated mental network of knowledge, beliefs, and expectations (first date: concerns a particular topic or aspect of the world, mental image, a mental picture, mirrors the thing it represents. Levels of consciousness in though (cognition: subconscious processes, occur outside of conscious awareness, accessible to consciousness when necessary, non-conscious processes, occur outside of conscious awareness, mental processes not available to conscious awareness. Types of non-conscious processes: implicit learning- acquiring knowledge without awareness, passive (with realization, without being able to e(cid:454)plai(cid:374) (cid:449)hat (cid:455)ou"(cid:448)e lear(cid:374)ed (e. g. crochet, mindlessness- operating on autopilot, e. g. Reasoning: drawing conclusions or inferences from observations, facts, or assumptions, formal reasoning problems- problems solved using established methods (algorithms- strategy which guarantees solution {algebra} & logic); usually a single correct solution.
