PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -Paul Slovic, Belief Perseverance, Amos Tversky
6 Aug 2012
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Textbook: psychology tenth edition in modules authored by david g. myers. Psychologists who study cognition focus on the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating information. One of these activities is forming concepts mental groupings of similar objects, events, ideas, and people. (the concept of chair includes high chair, reclining chair, dentist chair). We often form our concepts by developing prototypes a mental image or best example of a category. A robin is more of a bird than perhaps a penguin is. Algorithms step-by-step procedures that guarantee a solution. Insight sudden realization of a problem"s solution. Moment, problem solvers" frontal lobes were active, and there was a burst of activity in the right temporal lobe, just above the ear. No sense of getting warmer or close to the solution. Confirmation bias searching for info to support preconceptions. Watson ordinary people evade facts, become inconsistent, or systematically defend themselves against the threat of new information relevant to the issue.
