PSY 0010 Lecture : Cognition
Document Summary
Cognition: thinking, mental representation: structures in our minds stand for something else allows us to think of non present things/abstract ideas, analogical (visual) representation, imagery: visual representation of image not present. Mental scanning of visual images: symbolic (verbal) representation, mostly dominant form of thinking, concepts mental grouping of people, objects, events formal (artificial) concept: abstract concept defined by rules natural concepts: objects and events from everyday life, natural concepts as categories organized by what"s in common. Schemas and scripts: defining attribute model: list of features necessary to determine if an object is a, prototype model: simple example represents category; if new objects are similar, exemplars model: not single prototype, but many exemplars stored in category schema: cluster of concepts that provides framework for thinking objects, events, ideas, allows you to recognize school as school script: kind of schema, cluster of knowledge about sequences of specific events and actions expected to occur in specific setting.
