PSYC 100 Chapter : Psyc 100 ch8.docx

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Daniel J Levitin

Document Summary

How does the mind represent information: our thoughts guide much of our behaviour as we solve problems, make decisions and try to make sense of events going on around us, field of cognitive psychology was originally based on the notions that the brain represents information and that the act of thinking cognition is directly based with manipulating these representations, the challenge of cognitive psychologists is to understand the nature of our everyday mental representations, we use two basic types of representations, analogical and symbolic, which, both types form the basis of human thought, intelligence and the ability to solve usually correspond to images and words everyday life"s complex problems, analogic mental representation that has some of the physical characteristics of, symbolic an abstract mental representations that does not correspond to the an object (like a map or family tree); it is comparable to the object physical features of an object or idea (cid:224) usually words or ideas.