Intro to Psychology; Cognition, Language, Intelligence Notes

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Thinking useof knowledge to accomplish somesortofgoal


mentalrepresentations bitsofmemorythatrepresentsnounsevenwhentheyarenotpresent

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sensoryaspects AND meaningofobject
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visualappearancesmelltaste namedefinitionandproperties

Remembering avisualimageisassociatedbylookinginthesamedirectionwherewe firstsawit


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images verbalknowledge

reppartsofstimulus nowpiecesofpicturefittogether

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patternsofbrainactivityissimilarwhenseeingsomethingorthinkingofamentalimageofit


concepts mentalcategoriesthatcontainrelatedbitsofinfo

cognitivespacesaver storeageneralconceptofstimuli
groupthingstogether based off similaritiesanddifferences 3 categories
1 superordinate category broadgeneral concepts fruitanimal
2 Basiclevelcategory intermediatelevelusethemosttothink orangedog
ffe 3 subordinate category specificdetailed navalorangegoldenretriever
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MichaelMack Thomas Palmeri whenyouonlygetaglanceatstimuliweidentirysuperordinate


formal concepts Natural concepts


basedonlearnedrigidrulesthatdefinecertain we liveourlives
Develop naturally as
categoriesof things andexperiencetheworld
prototypes whatwethinkis typical ofa category

theclosertoprototype closertocategory

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