PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Emotional Bias, Confirmation Bias, Personalization

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

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Chapter 8: language and thought (cid:858)i thi(cid:374)k therefore i a(cid:373) (cid:859) descartes (deliberate chain of thought/judgement = always thinking) Cognitive perspectives on subjective well-being: examining directly the thinking of the individual, must be knowledgeable about own thinking before you can discover how your thinking affects you. Turn thoughts away from lack, want and limitation = focus on the present: try thinking in a different way = expand your thinking. How do we know what we know: authority: others tell us its true = must be true, reason: considered by renaissance scholars to be the most reliable source of knowledge, observation: basis for empirical (observable/measurable) knowledge (dissection) Cognitive psychologists: study reasoning, judgments, decision-making and problem solving. Problem solving: what must be done to achieve a goal. Inducing structure: discover relationships among # words, symbols, ideas. Completion/analogy problems: arrangement: arrange points of problem that satisfies some criterion. String/anagrams problems: transformation: carry out sequence of transformations to reach a specific goal.