Psychology 1000 Lecture : Psychology think and intelligence February 4.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Prof

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Concepts: a mental category that groups objects, relations, activities, abstractions, or qualities having common properties. easier to acquire than those having few or many instances, basic concepts: concepts tat have a moderate number of instances and that are, prototype: an especially representative example of a concept, proposition: a unit of meaning that is made up of concepts and expresses a single, cognitive schemas: integrated mental network of knowledge, beliefs, and, mental images: mental representation that mirrors or resembles the thing it expectations concerning a particular topic or aspect of the world idea. represents (occur in most sensory modalities) Exaggerating the improbable: common bias to exaggerate the probability of rare events (e. g. , getting in a plane crash) probabilities objectively, affect heuristic: tendency to consult one"s emotions instead of estimating, availability heuristic: tendency to judge *** finished def, avoiding loss million dollar win.