PSY 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cognitive Dissonance, Availability Heuristic, Affect Heuristic
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A mental category that groups objects, relations, activities, abstractions, or qualities having common properties. Basic concepts: concepts that have a moderate number of instances and that are easier to acquire than those having few or many instances. Prototype: an especially representative example of a concept. A unit of meaning that is made up of concepts and expresses a single idea. Integrated mental network of knowledge, beliefs, and expectations concerning a particular topic or aspect of the world. Mental representation that mirrors or resembles the thing it represents (occur in most sensory modalities) Mental processes occurring outside of conscious awareness but accessible to consciousness when necessary (e. g. , driving a car) Mental processes occurring outside of and not available to conscious awareness (e. g. , relying on insight or intuition) How was this possible: what is so unusual about the sentence below? (aside from the fact that it doesn"t make a lot of sense. )