PSY 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Frontal Lobe, General Idea, Behaviorism
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Cognition is the mental processes such as thought and memory. Though human thought is vastly more complex, cognition is not unlike the input/output of a computer program. Cognitive psychology is the study of mental processes. Images are picture-like mental representations (ex: falling asleep thinking and seeing what you will do tomorrow) Concepts are ideas corresponding to a group of related items (ex: general idea of what a college course will have) Language is a system of words, symbols, and signs used to think and communicate. Ability to use language to represent mental processes is unique to humans. Large size of our frontal lobe allows us to comprehend cause/effect relationships and create hypothetical situations (requires us to construct statements using language) Mental imagery is a picture-like mental representations of an event or object. Stored image is a visual image recalled from long-term memory. Created image is a representation that is invented rather than remembered.
