PSY 1305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Universal Grammar, Deaf Culture, Eye Movement In Reading
28 Feb 2017
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Cognition involves the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. Concepts help to simplify thinking through mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, and people. After placing an item in a category, memory gradually shifts it toward a category prototype. Categories boundaries begin to blur as movement from prototypes occur. Involves trying various possible solutions, and if that fails, trying others. Algorithm: step by step strategy for solving a problem, methodically leading to a specific solution. Heuristic: short-cut, step-saving thinking strategy or principle which generates a solution quickly (but possibly in error). Obstacles: confirmation bias predisposes us to verify rather than challenge our hypotheses, fixation, such as mental set, may prevent us from taking the fresh perspective that would lead to a solution. Insight refers to a sudden realization, a leap forward in thinking, that leads to a solution. Brain activity in the temporal lobe and frontal lobe with insight.
