PSY B110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Confirmation Bias, Belief Bias, Language Development
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Cognition: mental activities involved in acquiring, retaining, and using knowledge. Thinking: manipulations of mental representation of information in order to draw inferences and conclusions. Categorization: grouping things in an organized, meaningful, useful way. Concept: abstract mental representations for objects or ideas. Formal concept: mental category based on the rules or features that define the particular concept. Natural concept: resulting from everyday experiences rather than by logically determining whether an object or event fits a specific set of rules. Definitional approach: make mental list of features shared by members of category, then compare new items to the list. Prototype: best, most typical, instance of a particular concept. Exemplars: individual instances of a concept of category, held in memory. Thinking and behavior directed toward attaining a goal that is not available. Trial and error:attempting different solutions and eliminating those that do not work. Algorithm: follows specific rule, procedure, or method that produces correct solution.
