PSY 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Confirmation Bias, Problem Solving, Language Development
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Cognition refers to all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. A concept is a mental grouping of similar objects, events, states, We form concepts by developing prototypes, that is, mental images ideas, etc of the best example of a concept. To further simply our perception and experience of the world, we organize concepts into categories. Ex: see a hammer and automatically think it can only be used for nails. Conventional solutions. current theory and often disregard other info: heuristics can solve problem quickly but can lead to mistaken. The representativeness heuristic judging the likelihood of things based on a representation/prototype of something. Grammar the boy hit the ball: language development: 10 months babbling resembles household language. 24+ language develops rapidly into complete sentences: explaining language acquisition: nature and nurture. Chomsky language acquisition device a neurological system, which when given adequate nurture allows us to understand and produce language.
