PSYH 151 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Gender Role, Savant Syndrome, Wi-Fi
27 Dec 2022
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Cognition - mental process of acquiring, processing and storing knowledge. Cognitive psychology - science of how people think, learn, remember, perceive. Senses serve as interface between; mind and external environment. Receive info from stimuli that are transferred to brain to process. Brain also pulls information from emotions and memories. Sensations and information are received by our brains, filtered through emotions and memories, and processed to become thoughts. Concepts - categories or groupings of linguistic(verbal) information, images, ideas, and memories; big ideas. Prototype - organizing information based on best examples of representations of a concept. Mental representation - structure in our mind, an idea or an image, about things we sensed in our past: allows us to remember things from past and imagine future. Visual imagery - creating visual representations in our brain after we see the original stimulus and it"s no longer present. Verbal representation - organization and classification of things into categories; concept-mental grouping of people, events, or objects.
