PSYC 100 Chapter : PSYC 100

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

Document Summary

Gigerenzer: low probability events that are highly published have dire consequences: dread risk can profoundly affect reasoning. Intelligence: some people seem to be better than others at using information. Gladwell: the power of thinking without thinking: the ability to use information rapidly is a critical human skill. Cognitive psychology: originally based on the notions that the brain represents information and that the act of thinking: cognition- is directly associated with manipulating these representations. Understanding the nature of our everyday mental representation is difficult. Analogical representations: have some of the physical characteristics of an object; it is analogous to the object. (images) Symbolic representations: an abstract representation that doesn"t correspond to physical characteristics of an object or idea. (words) The "r"" studies showed that the time it takes to say whether a stimulus is a mirror image will increase as a function of how far the stimulus is rotated from its original position.