MUSC 021 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Moe Williams, Cognitive Map, Cognitive Psychology
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Categories or groupings of linguistic information, images, ideas, or memories (life experiences); Big ideas generated by observing details, categorizing and combining these details into cognitive structures; Concepts help us perceive the relationships among our knowledge and experiences; and keep the information in your mind organized and accessible; Informed by semantic memory (long term explicit/declarative memory) Present in every aspect of our lives from daily routine to the guiding principles (complex and abstract/concrete, personal and individual) Prototype is the best example or representation of a concept. Schemata (mental shortcut consisting of a cluster or collection of related concepts) A mental construct consisting of a cluster or collection of related concepts (role schema, event schema also known as cognitive script ); When a schema is activated, the brain works more efficiently and makes immediate assumptions about the person or object being observed. Cognition is thinking, and it encompasses the processes associated with perception, knowledge, problem solving, judgment, language, and memory.
