PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Representativeness Heuristic, Hypothetical Syllogism, Availability Heuristic

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Dread risks: low probability events that are highly publicized and have dire consequences, such as the deaths associated with the hijackings of 9/11, can result in fears; can profoundly affect reasoning and decision making. Cognition: mental activity such as thinking or representing information. Brain represents information and that the act of thinking that is, cognition is directly associated with manipulating these representations. We use representations to understand objects we encounter in our environments. Analogical representation: a mental representation that has some of the physical characteristics of an object; it is analogous to the object (ex. Maps which correspond to geographical layouts, and family trees which depict relationships between relatives) Symbolic representation: usually words or ideas; an abstract mental representation does not correspond to the physical features of an object or idea (ex. Violin stands for musical instrument, no correspondences between what a violin looks like or sounds like and the letters or sounds that make up the word violin)