PSY 1113 Study Guide - Final Guide: Intelligence Quotient, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, David Wechsler
3 May 2016
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Cognition: the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. Create concepts solve problems make decisions form judgments use language. Concepts -mental groupings of similar objects, events, and people logical concepts have clearly defined rules for membership. Natural concepts have poorly defined or fuzzy rules for membership. Prototype a mental image of a model or example of a typical category member. Hierarchies of concepts we order concepts within hierarchies of broad to narrow categories. Schemas conceptual frameworks, or clusters of knowledge, regarding objects, people, and situations. Algorithm a step-by-step procedure that guarantees a solution. Heuristics a simple rule that is intended to apply to many situations (why do we use them? information processing and motivational constraints) information processing constraints we can only process so much information at one time. Motivational constraints we don"t always want to do the very best (just good enough)
