PSY100H1 Chapter Notes -Mental Image, Decision-Making, Information Processing
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Cognition mental activity such as thinking or representing information: mental representational hypothetical "internal" cognitive symbol, represents external reality, used to understand encountered objects. Symbolic representation an abstract mental representation that does not correspond to the physical features of an object or idea. Ex. words used to describe objects, not analogous. Mental images are analogical representations: ex. Letter harder to identify when further from mental image: mind"s see parallels actual sight when retrieve info from memory. Mental image not perfectly accurate, corresponds generally: limits of analogical representation. Can only represent limited range of knowledge analogically. Something cannot perceive wholly by perceptual system. Regularization of irregular shapes = shortcut, error prone. Concepts are symbolic representations: categorization grouping things based on shared properties. Reduce amount knowledge held in memory, efficient: concept a mental representation that groups or categorizes objects, events, or relations around common themes. Category, class, includes subtypes and/or individual items.
