PSYCH 315 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Garden Path Sentence, Apraxia, Temporal Lobe

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 315
• Professor: Andrew Cohen

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Distinguish between thinking, problem solving, and reasoning (p. 412). Thinking: mentally representing some aspects of the world and transforming these representations so that new representations, useful to our goals, are generated. Problem solving: set of cognitive processes that we apply to reach a goal when we must overcome obstacles to reach that goal. Reasoning: cognitive processes we use to make inferences from knowledge and draw conclusions. Describe the structure of a problem, including the initial state and the goal state (pp. There are three parts to a problem. Goal state: where you want to be at the solution of the problem. Initial state: where you are now as you face the problem that needs to be solved. Set of operations that you can apply: the actions to get from the initial state to the goal state. Compare well-defined problems to ill-defined problems, including special mention of insight problems (p. 415).