01:830:101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Falsifiability, Impression Formation, Pragmatics

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Margaret Ingate

Document Summary

The study of cognition typically includes the topics of perception, memory, attention, thinking, language, and consciousness. Pictures of two hot ppl switched, asked which is attractive. Peopleare just stating reasons that they make up afterward-reasonable sounding explaination. Since we are defining thinking as the manipulation of mental representations to generate new representations. Subjects are shown a stimulus (e. g. r ) that is rotated between 0 and 360o , each must decide whether the letter is normal or a mirror image. Such tasks activate the visual cortex, suggesting an actual rotation of the stimulus. A concept is an abstraction: abstractions allow us to ignore any and all details that are irrelevant to current purposes, thus maximizing the power of a capacity-limited mind. Many theorists equate what we are paying attention to with the contents of working memory. Recall that many psychologists equate working memory with consciousness.