PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Visual Cortex, Wind Instrument, Cognitive Psychology
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Dread risks: fears that result from low-probability events being highly publicized e. g. rise in automobile accidents b/c of the 9/11 (many ppl began to fear flying even though more ppl die in car accidents than in airline disasters) Cognitive psychology is based on the notions that the brain represents information and the act of thinking, cognition (mental activity like thinking/representing information) is directly associated w/ manipulating the representations. We use representations to understand objects in our environments. Analogical representations: has some characteristics of ( analogous to ) actual objects (e. g. maps, family trees) Symbolic representations: abstract; usually words or ideas; do not relate to physical qualities of objects in world (e. g. the word violin represents musical instrument; the letters of words do not correspond to what violin looks like) We often see images without trying; representations can take on picture-like qualities.
