PSYC 250 Lecture Notes - Greater Omentum, Functional Fixedness, Lev Vygotsky

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 250
• Professor: Tanya Broesch

Document Summary

50 multiple choice and 1 essay question (10pt) 3 components of a concept: 1. set of items included 2. phenomena. Psychological grouping enables us to divide up our experiences to help us navigate through the world --> way to bring previous knowledge and apply to new experiences. Experience can shape categories and how you see the world. A mentally represented collection of entities (e. g. objects, people. An implicit classification of perceptual stimuli into discrete sets despite a lack of physical discontinuity in the stimuli(e. g. colours, facial expressions) Facial expression--> typical happy emotion is a smile e. g. of the study done in fiji, somoa, vanuatu. Evident that fiji better at presenting happy o o. Danger more likely to be remembered than any other characteristic, Bottom line: children make an early distinction between animals, their followed by poison predators and prey. Picture a fruit --> most likely pictured an apple orange or banana.