PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Base Rate, Confirmation Bias, Concept Learning
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Cognition = thinking = mental activity associated with processing, understanding, and communicating info. Convergent thinking: lots of data pooled to converge on an answer. Divergent thinking: bits of info we have can be combined in a lot of ways to give us a lot of different answers. Example: how many different uses can you find for a brick? (other than building things). Sudden and often novel realization of the solution to the problem. Wolfgang kohler"s experiment on insight by a chimpanzee (1930s): bananas hanging above the chimp. Theres crates all around him which are not high enough to reach the bananas. He gets the idea of piling the crates together and then going up and getting the bananas. A task that gives the feeling of insight when you solve each problem is the remote associates. Logic is a formal system of rules of inference (algorithms) for evaluating the validity of arguments that draw conclusions from premises.
