PSYC 499 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Occipital Lobe, Affective Forecasting, Availability Heuristic
25 Oct 2017
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Historical reference (from shakespeare) using our mind"s eye . (chambers & reisberg, 1985) (reisberg & heurer, 2005) Mental representations = contents in the mind that stand for some object/event/state of affairs that allow us to think about those objects/events/affairs even in their absence. Thinking = set of operations that we apply to our mental representations. Analogical representations = an idea that shares some of the actual characteristics of the object it represents. Symbolic representations = mental representations that stands for some content without sharing any characteristics with the thing it represents. Mental images large overlap between areas of the brain involved in mental images and visual perceptions (occipital lobe) Propositions = statements relating a subject and predicate. Judgment = process of extrapolating from evidence to draw conclusions. Heuristics = shortcuts in judgment; relatively accurate, but may result in error. Dual-process theory = proposal that judgment involves two types of thinking .
