PSYCH 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Vowel Diagram, Categorical Perception, Cardinal Direction
6 Mar 2018
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Cognitive: mental content and processes, includes learning and memory but also representation, problem solving, intelligence and language. Propositional/symbolic: non-sensory but meaningful, usually verbal concepts and knowledge: when you think of justice, it is an abstract concepts and can"t be defined by your senses, language plays a big part in symbolic/propositional representations. It is used to shape the prototype and is shaped by culture (e. g. birds in south florida) Schemas and scripts organized bundles of representations, also based on experiences in the world. Schema a bundle of representations about anything common situation/concept/role (does not tell you about the order: e. g. Farm; hospital: makes information more easier to remember because you group things together, heuristics - Scripts bundles of representation that have a particular sequence / carry information about appropriate sequences of behavior: e. g. eating in a restaurant follows a script, and it differs on environment (fine dining, fast food restaurant) Prototypes, schemas and scripts shape how we think:
