PSYC 2000 Chapter : Chapter 7
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2/24/2015 4:01:00 pm: mental activity that goes on in the brain when a person is processing info, involves acquiring, storing, retrieving, and using info, include sensation, perception, imagery, concept formation reasoning decision making problem solving and language. The study of thought: how people think, the nature of thought or process involved in thinking, how well people think, variations among people in thinking ability. Animal: basic (generic) level, an example of a type of concept around which other similar concepts are organized, subordinate: Dog: the most specific category or lowest in status of a concept. Dalmatian: formal concepts, concepts formed by learning the specific rules or features that define it, may acquire in school, each member of the concept meets all the rules or has all the defining properties, and no nonmember does. 1. the exposure a person has to objects in a category: 2. the knowledge a person has about objects in a category, 3. the culture of a person.
