PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Heritability, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Professor Jens Pruessner

Document Summary

Cognitive psychology subfield of psychology concerned with study of higher mental processes such as thinking, knowing and deciding. Thinking mental process involving manipulation of information in form of images or concepts that is inferred from behavior. Visual imagery seeing even though event or object is not actually viewed, can activate brain areas responsible fro visual perception, such as the occipital lobes. Dimensions of problems well-defines or structured, ill-defined or unstructured. Clearly specific beginning state (the starting point) Set of clearly specified tools or techniques for finding the solution (the needed operations) Clearly specified solution state (the final product) Degree of uncertainty or messiness about the starting point, needed operations, and final product. Can have numerous acceptable responses and criteria for judging responses are not necessarily simple or straightforward. Systematic procedure problem which may involve evaluating all possible solutions. Do not work for problems that are not clearly defined. Educated guesses or rules of thumb used to solve problems.