CAS PS 101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Stephen Kosslyn, List Of Coronation Street Characters (1960), Intelligence Quotient

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Joseph Harris

Document Summary

Cognition mental activities involved in acquiring, retaining, and using knowledge. Thinking the manipulation of mental representations of info in order to draw inferences and conclusions. Mental image mental representation of objects or events that are not physically present. Not strictly limited to visual pictures ; can involve other senses. Study by stephen kosslyn & colleagues: imagine a specific location on island, mentally scan across mental image of map and push button when they reach the rock. Findings: we tend to scan a mental image in much the same way we visually scan an actual image. Conclusion: the greater the degree of rotation required, the longer it takes you to rotate image mentally. Concept a mental category of objects or ideas based on properties they share. Formal concept a mental category that is formed by learning the rules or features that define it. Natural concept a mental category that is formed as a result of everyday experience.