PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Tylenol (Brand), Clark L. Hull, Homeostasis

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

Mental activities and processes associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating information. Concepts: mental groupings of similar objects, events, states, ideas and/or people. We do not derive concepts from their de nitions, we derive them from prototypes. *mental images of the best example of a concept within a category. When examples stretch our de nitions (a blue apple) When the boundary between the categories of concepts is fuzzy (tomato a fruit or a vegetable) When examples contradict our prototypes (penguins are birds but don"t y) 2. 1 what are some problem solving strategies for problem solving: Thinking in order to answer a complex question or to gure out how to accomplish a goal when the solution or path to the solution is not clear. Well de ned vs. ill de ned problems (the ability to autonomously solve ill de ned problems using advanced knowledge is why an employer will want to hire you)