Psychology 2135A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Noam Chomsky, Parietal Lobe, Sam Lecure

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Satisficing: set a criteria to achieve your goal & to choose an alternative that will achieve the goal first. Heuristics & memory: cognitive shortcut, way to use existing knowledge to make a decision/solve a problem/plan behaviour without having to go through all the possible alternatives. Nativism: emphasis on that which is innate (nature), people are born with innate knowledge. Empiricism: emphasis on experience/learning (nurture), all knowledge comes from experience in the world. Introspection: (wilhelm wundt) studying cognitive processes by looking inward: the workings of the mind should be open to self-observation. Believed that intense self-inspection would be able to identify primitive experiences where thought arose. It"s unreliable across labs (people have different reactions in different situations) & it ignores unconscious influences. Midterm 1 study notes: an available memory that we are currently aware of and a larger memory that is the repository for past experiences. Gestalt psychology: maintained interest in human perception, thought.