PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Robert Sternberg, Inductive Reasoning, Blackboard
65
PSY100H1 Full Course Notes
Verified Note
65 documents
Document Summary
Dead risks are fears that can profoundly affect reasoning and decision-making. Gerd gigerenzer (2004) believes the biases that typically affect decision-making after highly unlikely tragic events should be publicized, so that education about dread risks might prompt people to reconsider choices that could result in additional negative consequences. The way we think about information makes important differences in the quality of our lives both individually and collectively. Cognition = mental activity such as thinking or representing information. The field of cognitive psychology was originally based on the notions that the brain represents information and that the act of thinking is directly associated with manipulating these representations. Two basic types of representations: analogical = a mental representation that has some of the physical characteristics of an object; it is analogous to the object. E. g. maps and family trees: symbolic = an abstract mental representation that does not correspond to the physical features of an object or idea.
