Psychology 3130A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tabula Rasa, Gestalt Psychology, Memory Consolidation

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

Document Summary

What are the main theoretical approaches to thinking: gestalt, cognitive, dual process. Two types of thinking were believed to exist at the time: productive thinking and reproductive thinking (wertheimer, 1959: productive thinking. Involves solving the problem with an insight; creativity and problem solving; making new observations and new insights: reproductive thinking. System 1: faster evolved before system 2. Intuitive: when we have instincts, we are involving this system. System 2: slower and more deliberate way of thinking, system 2 is more of a human way of thinking. What are the challenges to the thinking process: multitasking, with smartphones, computers, devices, smartphones, devices and or computers can affect our decisions because they can take away some of our cognitive attention. Incomplete evidence: states that a lot of the time when we make decisions, we don"t always have all of the evidence in front of us, e. g. , a student is struggling to solve an algebra problem for their homework.