PSY 101 Lecture 19: PSY 101 Lecture 19
4 Apr 2017
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Cognition: concepts, organizing concepts, problem solving, errors and biases. What is cognition: cognition, processing, understanding, and communicating information. Concepts (schemas: mental grouping of similar objects, events, and ideas, example, recognizing a bird, places to eat. Can have schemas for actions: examples, how to tie shoes, how to solve math problems, how to act in a situation. **scripts: how to behave and how to act: connections among all schemas. How schemas are organized in the mind: hierarchies. Frameworks of specific concepts nested within general concepts. Hierarchies can overlap: example, birds, also in the group of animals. In the group of things that can fly. Prototypes: a mental image or best example of a particular concept/schema, identify prototypical schemas faster, problem solving, any cognitive activity meant to guide action. **what your mind is busy doing all day: example, what you"re going to wear, choosing the best answer on a test, soccer players deciding who to pass the ball too.
