PSYO 1012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Availability Heuristic, Broccoli, Metacognition
20 Aug 2018
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The science of how people think, learn, remember, and perceive. All the stuff that humans attribute to being special from all the other organisms. Mental processes involved in acquiring, processing, and storing knowledge. We will probably never be able to actually see thoughts and ideas just see blood flow. Cognitive psychologist say that we approach ideas, memory or knowledge as mental representation: = a structure (idea or image) in the mind that stands for something else (external object or thing) Example: the moon, can"t see it right now but if you think about it you can visual the moon, can accesses information about the moon - both visually and verbally. Function: allows us to remember things in the past or imagine things in the future (making predictions or just imagining) not in the present, allows us to think about abstract ideas that have no physical existence. We mostly represent ideas and thoughts in our minds visually or verbally:
