PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes -Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Frontal Lobe, Intelligence Quotient

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Cognition: all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating: activities forming concepts: a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas or people. Form thoughts through prototypes: a mental image/best example of a category. Matching new items to a prototype provides a quick and easy method for sorting items into categories: ex. as when comparing feathered creatures to a prototypical bird such a robin. Algorithm: a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem. Contrasts with the usually speedier but also more error prone (use of heuristics: step by step procedure guaranteed answer. Heuristic: a simple thinking strategy that often problems efficiently: usually speedier but also more error prone than algorithms. Insight: a sudden realization of a problem"s solution; contrasts with strategy-based solutions. Confirmation bias: a tendency to search for information that supports our preconception and ignore or distort contradictory evidence. Fixation- an inability to see a problem form a fresh perspective.