PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Twin Study, Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Heritability

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Allan Greer

Document Summary

Sub eld of psychology concerned with study of higher mental processes such as thinking, knowing, and deciding. Mental process involving manipulation of information in form of images or concepts that is inferred from behaviour. Seeing even though event or object is not actually viewed. Can activate brain areas responsible for visual perception, such as the occipital lobes. Well- de ned problems have three speci ed characteristics: Clearly speci ed beginning state (the starting point) Set of clearly speci ed tools or techniques for nding the solution (the needed operations) Clear speci ed solution state (the nal product) Degree of uncertainty or messiness about the starting point, needed operations, and nal product. Can have numerous acceptable responses and criteria for judging responses are not necessarily simple and straightforward. Systematic procedure problem which may involve eventuating all possible solutions. Do not work for problems that are not clearly de ned. Educated guesses or rules of thumb used to solve problems.