Psychology 3130A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Knowledge Organization, Child Abduction, Memory Consolidation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3130A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

A subset of mental activity that involves working with mental representations, planning and executing behaviours, and the coordination of cognitive resources. Basic visual perception, memory consolidation, and coordination of sensory motor activity are sophisticated mental activities but are not considered to be thinking. Solving a physics problem vs. catching a fly ball: tracking it calculating trajectory of a projectile. More sophisticated console-based games vs. chess (slower, reason- System 2: slower, reason based, evolutionarily recent, present in humans brain structures based) System 1: faster, intuitive, evolutionarily primitive, present in non human brain structure species. When you make a decision with your gut it might be a decision tat is based on system 1. For example, consider two people who live on the same floor of an apartment building. When you make a more conscious, deliberative decision, it might be thought to involve system 2 processes more heavily.