PSYC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Problem Solving, Decision-Making, Morpheme
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Mental activity that goes on in the brain when a person is organizing and attempting to understand or communicate: acquiring storing and retrieving, decisions, comparing, solving. The mental manipulation of representations of info we encounter in our environment. Mental images: mental imagery that stand for objects or events that have a picture like quality: mental images are interacted with in similar ways as physical objects. Helpful for memory, and for learning or maintaining motor skills: ex: watching football replays as a way of training. Ideas that represent a class or group of objects events, or activities that share common attributes. Important features of the objects or events people think about: allow for identification of new objects and events that may fit (new dog) Formal concepts: formed by learning the rules or features that define it: acquired in school, each member of the concept meets all of the rules (or has all the defining properties), and no nonmember does.
