PY - Psychology PY 100S Chapter Notes - Chapter 7-8: Convergent Thinking, Divergent Thinking, Functional Fixedness

• School: NMU
• Department: PY - Psychology
• Course: PY - Psychology PY 100S
• Professor: Kapla

Document Summary

Chapters 7 & 8: thought and language & intelligence: define information-processing system and thinking. Discuss the role of attention and memory in each stage of the information-processing model. Receives information, represents this information with symbols, and then manipulates those symbols. In the first stage, information about the world reaches your brain through the senses. In the second stage, you must perceive and recognize this information processes that do not require attention. You consciously elaborate information using the short-term and working-memory processes which allow us to think about new information in relation to knowledge store din your long-term memory. Once the information has been elaborated in this way, you must decide what to do with it. The third stage is the decision making stage which demands attention, too. Your decision might be to store the information or to take some action. If the decision is to act, it is at this stage that you plan what to do.