PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Belief Perseverance, Representativeness Heuristic, Long-Term Memory
10 Dec 2016
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Cognition and languages cognition all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. concept a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people. prototype a mental image or best ex- ample of a category. Cognition --- how people think and solve problems. How we think is relevant to human being. --behavior rational: as civilization: land spaceships on moon, build history to guide future generation; unlock history of atom and correct genetic of code. # human have well capacity with well reason and well thoughts. ---behavior irrational: on environment, ppl discriminate base on race and gender, throw away money and take drugs can make us sick; mistreat we love. ###cognitive thinking affect psychological experience consideration of thinking begins with. Concepts definition: basic building blocks of abstract thought. --concept refer to mental grouping (in our mind, we group similar things together; e. g person, idea, events, objects) freedom is a vague concept and have many object underneath it.
