PSYC 001 Study Guide - Final Guide: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Autism Spectrum
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Concepts are categories or groupings of linguistic information, images, ideas, or memories, such as life experiences. Prototype is another technique used by our brain to organize information that is to identify the prototype concept that we have developed. An example for the category of civil disobedience, your prototype could be rosa parks. Her peaceful resistance to segregation on a city bus in. Montgomery, alabama, is a recognizable example of civil disobedience. Event schema is also known as cognitive script, it is a set of behaviors that can feel like a routine. For example, think about what you do when you walk into an elevator. First, the doors open and we have to wait until the passenger leaves the elevator car. Language is a communication system that involve using words and systematic rules to organize those words to transmit information from one individual to another. The component of language is a lexicon and grammar.
