PY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Expected Utility Hypothesis, Daniel Kahneman, Cognitive Psychology
29 Aug 2016
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Cognition is thinking and the understanding that results from that thinking. For the in-class activity, he asked us to write down everything we could think of about birds when we got to this topic. Neural activity occurs with both looking and remembering. Prototype model: we have a bunch of categories in our head and each category has one best example. Exemplar model: average of all category members, fuzzy representation, grows through experience, prototypes are what we"ve encountered more. When we think of cats, we do not think of hairless cats; we think about hairy, fluffy cats that we see on the internet and maybe have as a pet. Tomatoes technically are a fruit but we do not associate a tomato with fruits because it is not sweet nor is it used the way we use fruit. Different modes of behavior from when you attend class and when you attend the movies.
