PSYC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Shiatsu, Hindsight Bias, Cognitive Dissonance
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Instance- a thing that is part of a concept. Concept- a mental category that groups objects, relations, activities, abstractions, or qualifies having common properties: ex. Basic concepts- they have a moderate number of instances and are easier to acquire than those having either few or many instances: ex. Prototype- a representative instance of a concept. Proposition- a unit of meaning that is made up of concepts and expresses a single idea. Cognitive schemas- networks of knowledge, association, beliefs, and expectations that link together propositions and concepts. Mental images- pictures that are generated by the brain and can be manipulated. Subconscious thinking- thinking that is done by the brain without a person knowing. Subconscious process- these help us handle more information and preform more complex tasks: ex. Processing individual letters to read the entire word. Nonconscious process- they remain outside of awareness even after people try to bring them back: ex.
