PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Base Rate, Confirmation Bias, Asthma
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Cognition- mental activity associated with processing, understanding and communication info. Cognitive psychology the study of these mental activities: Judgement formation study of both logical and illogical thinking. Reasoning is problem solving- starting with a set of facts or premises. Convergent thinking- all of the data/ info lead to one correct answer. Divergent thinking- data can be combined in different ways to come to different answers, thought to be one of the measures of creativity. Insight- sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem. Wolfgang kohler"s experiment on insight by a chimpanzee. Chimpanzee had a moment of insight where he piled up boxes to reach bananas high up, which he couldn"t reach before. Remote associates test- a task that gives the feeling of insight when you solve each problem i. e. what word goes with stool, powder, ball -> foot.
