Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes -Functional Fixedness, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Intelligence Quotient

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

An investigation of language functions, models, and brain relationships. Monkeys and other apes will never be able to speak because of their flat tounge. Reasoning and problem solving: the acts of cognition. Cognition consists of the re-organization and manipulation of mental representations in a goal directed manner. There are two major forms of reasoning we may employ in this process: People can read words outloud faster than them saying whether and object is inamite or inamite. Showing pictures rather than words causes a faster response. Start with specific facts and try to develop a general principle. Redhearings misleading info played in story plot of movies ex. Picture of aleged rapist on newspaper before he is guilty. Easy to induce in group of people, will bias you to deal with info in a set fashion = easy to make errors. Step-by-step scripts for selecting information and solving special problems. *provides a means of solving that special problem.