01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Frontal Lobe

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Sarah Carton

Document Summary

Thinking is a cognitive process in which the brain uses information from the senses, emotions, and memory to create and manipulate mental representations, such as concepts, images, schemas, Thinking and scripts: cognitive process in which the brain uses information from the senses, emotions, and memory to create and manipulate mental representations such as concepts, images, schemas, and scripts. Results of thinking: reasoning, imagining, judging, deciding, problem solving, expertise, and creativity. Mental groupings of similar objects, ideas, or experiences: natural concepts represent objects and events from direct experience, prototypes are the most representative examples of a conceptual category, artificial concepts are defined by rules. We organize the bulk of our declarative memories into concept hierarchies ( categories ). Visual imagery adds complexity and richness to our thinking (for example, thinking in pictures). Thinking with sensory imagery can be useful in problem solving (e. g. , planning a route, or searching for something).