Cognition
Processing, understanding, and communicating information
What is Cognition?
Mental grouping of similar objects, events, or ideas
What is a schema?
Any cognitive activity meant to guide action
What is problem-solving?
A mental shortcut or problem-solving method that uses experience to find a solution quickly
What is a heuristic?
The ability to use knowledge to adapt to new situations
What is intelligence?
This is the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information to understand our environment
What is perception?
Why are schemas the basic building blocks of cognition?
Methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem
Basing Judgement on the availability of information in memory
What is the Availability Heuristic?
Believed that intelligence is a product of BOTH nature and nurture
Who is Alfred Binet?
The branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind and mental processes
What is cognitive psychology?
Can we have schemas about animals?
The tendency to ignore old information in favor of new information
What is base-rate neglect?
What is the representativeness heuristic?
Can intelligence be defined as just one thing?
No
This type of memory is concerned with the memory for facts and events
What is declarative/explicit memory>?
Before buying a new car that you already want, you only read positive reviews and ignore negative reviews that suggest other options. Is this base-rate neglect or confirmation bias?
Confirmation Bias
Tendency to search for information that confirms our beliefs
What is confirmation bias?
You see a person wearing a tweed jacket carrying a stack of books. You ask your friend if they think the person is a construction worker or a professor and they say a professor. What kind of heuristic did your friend use?
Representativeness Heuristic
Someone is asked the question "which is more dangerous, being a police officer or a logger" and they say a police officer. What kind of heuristic did they use?
Availability Heuristic