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Cognitive psych |
how people think, learn, remember, perceive |
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Cognition |
Mental processes- acquiring, processing and storing knowledge |
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Mental representation |
Structure in mind that's stands for something else Past/future- not present |
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Visual representation |
Thinking in images |
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Imagining outcomes |
Enhances performance Activates brain in similar way as performing a task |
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Concept |
Mental grouping of objects,events, people |
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Concept hierarchy |
Arrangement of concepts: general->specific |
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Category |
Organizing concepts around shared characteristics |
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Reasoning |
Process of drawing interferences or conclusions from principles & evidence |
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Deductive reasoning |
General statements to specific conclusions |
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Inductive reasoning |
Specific evidence to general conclusions |
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Schema |
Mental representation of a class of objects, scenes, events |
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Reasoning schemes |
Mental representation of familiar types of problems |
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Pragmatic problems |
Problems we solve tend to be practical problems |
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Representativeness heuristic |
Estimation of probability of one event, based on how typical it is |
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Learning a Second language |
Later onset dementia Higher neuronal density |
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