PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Information Retrieval, Problem Solving, Mental Model
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Cognition: refers to all the processes that we use to acquire and apply information: thinking, problem solving, decision making, also discuss two mentalities that psychologists have tried to measure: intelligence and creativity; Thought: (perspectives based on an observation of a particular person: language -- name, for example; Images -- appearance: concepts -- characteristics related to the very person; Language: flexible system of communication: uses sounds, rules, gestures, or symbols to convey information, unique to humans, surface structure versus underneath meanings -- a sentence can mean differently depending on distinct contexts or tones; Images: mental representations of a sensory experience, allow thinking about things in non-verbal ways; The link between language, thought and culture: people from different cultures perceive and think about the world in different ways, linguistic relativity hypothesis: patterns of thinking determined by specific language one speaks aka. Koko: self-awareness: knowing the objective existence of self;
