PSYC-1105EL Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Oneword, Hearing Loss, Isight
30 Jan 2017
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Co(cid:374)(cid:272)ept (cid:272)hai(cid:396) > (cid:271)a(cid:271)(cid:455)(cid:859)s (cid:272)hai(cid:396), di(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:272)hai(cid:396), et(cid:272). Cognition: all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. Forming concepts; a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people. Prototypes: a mental image or best example of a category. Matching new items to a prototype provides a quick and easy method for sorting items into categories. Our cognitive ability allows us to form concepts of things; where prototyping is the best example we can give for certain things. The first thing you think of when someone gives you a general topic. Algorithm: a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular. Heuristic: a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve. People sometimes use trial and error to solve problems, some use algorithms: problem. Contrasts with the usually speedier but also more error-prone use of heuristics. problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error-prone than algorithms.
