PSYCH 100 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Availability Heuristic, Functional Fixedness, Problem Solving

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: John Bickford

Document Summary

Cogniive psych branch of psych that focuses on the study of higher mental processes including thinking, language, memory, problem solving, knowing, reasoning, judging, and decision making. Thinking: brain acivity in which people mentally manipulate info; including words, images, sounds or other data. Mental images: representaions in the mind of an object or event; helps us hear tune in our head. Concepts: a mental grouping of similar objects, events or people; enable us to organize things into cogniive categories that are easier to understand and remember. Prototypes: typical highly representaive examples of a concept that correspond to our mental image or best example of the concept. Reasoning: process by which info is used to draw conclusions and make decisions. Deducive reasoning: reasoning from the general to the speciic ex: general broad theory to hypothesis. Syllogisic reasoning: drawing conclusions from a set of premises logical fallacies: all humans are vertebrae animals.