PSYCH-106 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Language Processing In The Brain, Functional Fixedness, Language Acquisition Device
10 Jan 2017
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Cognition: the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. Concept: a mental grouping of similar objects, events, and ideas or people. Prototype: a mental image or best example of a category. Matching new items to a prototype provides a quick and easy method for sorting into categories. Cognitive psychologists: study these activities including illogical ways where we create concepts solve problems and make decisions to form judgments. Creativity: the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas. Divergent thinking: many or multiple answers on a test. 5 components of creativity: expertise, imaginative thinking skills, a venturesome personality, intrinsic motivation, a creative environment. Confirmation bias: a tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore contradictory evidence. Fixation: the ability to see a problem from a new perspective by employing a different mental set. Mental set: a tendency to approach a problem in a particular way often a way that has been successful in the past.
