Psychology 2135A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Garden Path Sentence, Confirmation Bias, Prospect Theory

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Psychology of thinking textbook notes final exam. Cognitive psych the study of info processing and behaviour: attention, perception, memory, concepts, thinking, thinking, problem solving, reasoning, decision making, becoming an expert. A basic description: thinking is a very specific subset of mental activity that involves working with mental representations, planning and executive behaviours and the coordination of cognitive resources. Different kinds of thinking: can be divided into content, effort, desired outcome, underlying cog processes and function, theory of mind being able to consider the contents of another person"s thoughts, like in playing chess. Those who said they were good at doing this performed worse on task switching tasks: heavy media multitaskers have adopted an attentional style that results in greater distractibility, suggests multitasking may not always be a benefit. Solving a problem with an insight, burst of ideas, clarity or correct solutions that often seem to arrive suddenly in the mind: reproductive thinking problem solving by remembered examples and remembered rules.

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