PSY100H1 Study Guide - Cultural Bias, Hypothetical Syllogism, Fundamental Attribution Error

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Michael Inzlicht

Document Summary

Cognition: mental activity such as thinking or representing info. analogical representation: mental representation of physcial characteristics of object. symbolic representation: abstract mental representation that does not correspond to physical features (eg. knowing the word violin stands for a instrument) mirror image of r, the further the degree of rotation, the longer it takes to tell if it"s a mirror image or not. stephen kosslyn"s study: time took to imagine shifting one"s gaze between two points on map increased with actual distance between the points. meaning visual imagery is associated with perception related areas (primary visual cortex) things that cannot be perceived by perceptual system, we cannot have representation of it. our knowledge about the object, knowledge based on concept which is the way we calssify the object based on attributes, prototypes, exemplars. words and abstract ideas, what to do with the object.