PSYCO335 Midterm: Psych 105
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February 02, 2017: thinking, what is, thinking? , cognition: getting to know being acquainted with. Mental process involved in gaining knowledge and understanding, comprehension. When we think, we learn something we didn"t know before: classifying: aspect of thinking. recognizing something eg. recognizing a chair in a new room, forming concepts: understanding something that you didn"t understand before, making decisions, problem solving & reasoning. Concept: group or category of things, either real or imagined, that are related. Can be a real thing. eg. chair. Or abstract. imagined (thinking about unicorns for eg. ) or not tangible. Prototype: a best, most familiar, or most typical example. Best example of something, most typical example of something. Rather remembering everything, just something typical. e. g you don"t have to remember every dog that exist, but you just need to remember what a typical dog looks like in order to know. Different prototypes exist in different cultures. each culture has a typical image of something differently.