PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Embodied Cognition, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stock Market

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Yen

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Historically: the (cid:498)truth-evaluable(cid:499: a concept that came out of philosophy. Cognition refers to processes of thought such as attention, memory, language, reasoning, problem-solving. Cognitive psychologists study how we use mental images, create concepts, solve problems, and make decisions and form judgments (cid:498)building blocks(cid:499) of thought. Making sense of natural concepts (categories: mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas of people, provides (cid:498)mental shorthand(cid:499) flying animal in a forest, you will automatically categorize it as a bird. You don"t have to keep processing information fresh every time you see it your brain refers to concepts! Prototypes the most typical instance or best example of a particular. Exemplars individual instances, held in memory, of a concept or category: ex. First apple i ever ate becomes the exemplar: ex. Fruit that best represents the fruit category concept. Prototypes and exemplars are context-specific (cultural, historical: they are not universal. Weird (western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) societies.