PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Interference Theory, Big Questions
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Thinking is an essential part of being human. How is it that people come to adopt false beliefs? (overthinking) Cognition basically thinking; mental activities and processes associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating information. Includes reasoning, judgment, and assembling new information into knowledge. Attention, emotion, consciousness, perception, learning, memory, language, mental health (alzheimer"s), and social interaction. Concept is a mental grouping of similar objects, events, states, ideas, and/or people, etc. Top-down perception our preexisting concepts determine our perceptions to some extent. A concept can be represented and communicated by an image, or by a word, or maybe by music, or by the other senses such as taste or smell (e. g. chair, party, democracy) For example, we define a triangle as an object with 3 sides. In reality, we often form concepts by developing prototypes. Prototypes mental images of the best example of a concept. Draw the triangle that you imagine; that is, draw your prototype of a triangle.
