PSY 1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Fixed Action Pattern, C. H. Waddington, Sexual Orientation
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Universal building blocks of everything we see (general shapes that make up impossible figures) Prototype: we compare entities to prototypes we have in our head. We"re likely to compare a candidate for a country music song to a song by hank williams to see how country it is. Semantic: a theory which assigns semantic contents to expressions of a language. Thinking about one concept will activate concepts linked to it. Red fire fire truck car automobile automatic. The tendency to read a word instead of saying the color of the ink. Saying the word red when it"s written in blue ink. The ability to do things without occupying the mind with the low-level details required, allowing it to become an automatic response pattern or habit. We can imagine turning an image in our heads to see if it matches another image. Failure to detect changes in parts of a scene.
