PSYC100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Anchoring, Correlation Does Not Imply Causation, Surface Roughness
4 Apr 2017
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Cognitive psychology: study of the mental processes by which info from the environment is modified, made meaningful, stored, retrieved, used and communicated to others. 5 core functions of thought: to describe, elaborate, decide, plan, and guide action. Information-processing system: mechanisms for receiving information, representing it with symbols and manipulating it. Mental chronometry timing of mental events: reaction time: time b/w the presentation of a stimulus and an overt response to it. Evoked potential: a small temporary change in eeg voltage in the brain that is caused by some stimulus. Concept: a category of objects, events, or ideas that have common properties: having a concept means recognizing the features that tend to be shared by members of the category. Natural concept (natural category): concept with no fixed set of defining features but has a set of characteristic features: prototype: member of a natural concept that possesses all or most of its characteristic features. Proposition: mental representation of the relationship b/w concepts.
