PSYC 2600 Chapter 12: Chapter 12.docx

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2600
• Professor: Elizabeth Nisbet

Document Summary

Cognitive approaches: such difference in how people think is the focus. Personalizing cognition: processing information by relating it to a similar event in your own life. For example, you might see a car accident and might think back to the time that you were in a car accident. Objectifying cognition: processing information by relating it to objective facts. Cognition: refers to awareness and thinking as well as to specific mental acts such as perceiving, interpreting, remembering, believing, and anticipating. Information processing: the transformation of sensory input into mental representations and the manipulation of such representations. Perception: the process of imposing order in the information our sense organs take in. Two people can look at the same situation and think two different things. Interpretation: making sense of or explaining various events in the world. Conscious goals: the standards that people develop for evaluating themselves and others.