PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Word Formation, Intellectual Disability, Pragmatics
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Cogniion: how informaion is processed and manipulated when remembering, thinking, and knowing. 1950s: psychology resumes focus on the mind and mental processes. Computers: an analogy for the mind/brain (fueled the revoluion: if they could igure out the internal processes of the computer, they could do the same thing with the mind. Concepts: mental categories used to group objects, events, and characterisics: prototype model: instances of a concept are understood/stored as a variaion of a prototype (ideal example) of that concept. Maier string problem: the problem was funcion ixedness. We were ixated on thinking that pliers just have one funcion. Candle problem: tack the box to the wall and then put the candle in the box so there will be no wax on the table. Mental acivity of transforming informaion to reach conclusions: inducive reasoning: driven by data; botom-up; speciic to general.
