PSYCH-UA 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning, Problem Solving
24 Jun 2015
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We develop rules for making fast decisions b/c daily life demands we do so: we can be heavily influenced by factors that are not considered rational. Prominence of events can affect our thinking. Thinking is mental manipulation of these representations; we use representations to understand objects we encounter in our environments: cognition can be broadly defined to be: thinking, understandings resulting from thinking, representations are present everywhere. Thinking is the manipulation of mental representations: thinking is adaptive, challenge for cognitive psychologists: understand nature of everyday mental representations. In thinking, 2 basic types of representations are used: analogical, symbolic. Analogical: usually correspond to images, ex: image of violin. Symbolic: usually correspond to words, ex: word violin : analogical & symbolic representations = basis of human thought, intelligence, ability to solve complex problems of everyday life, analogical representations: have some characteristics of actual objects. Ex: maps correspond to geographical layouts; family trees depict relationships b/w relatives.
