Psychology 3130A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Amos Tversky, Child Abduction, City Block

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3130A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

A subset of mental activity that involves working with mental representations, planning and executing behaviours, and the coordination of cognitive resources. Basic visual perception, memory consolidation, and coordination of sensory motor activity are sophisticated mental activities but are not considered to be thinking. For example, the general tendency to make judgment and decisions on the basis of information that is available in memory is known as the. Availability heuristic: airline safety, child abduction (walking to school vs. being driven) Incomplete evidence: in the smart phone era, a student is struggling to solve an algebra problem for her homework. If she remembers the correct algorithm, or correct example, the solution should eventually come. However, if she remembers the wrong algorithm, the problem will be much more difficult to solve. Theories of similarity: the geometric model, the contrast model, the alignment model, transformational models. Target activates a concept and activation spreads to related concepts: measured via lexical decision task.