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Cognition

Cognition. Cognition: Thinking. All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. . Organizing Information: Concepts and Prototypes. Concepts. Draw or describe each of the following. Bird Color Triangle Motor vehicle A sentence

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Cognition

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  1. Cognition

  2. Cognition: Thinking • All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

  3. Organizing Information: Concepts and Prototypes Concepts Draw or describe each of the following • Bird • Color • Triangle • Motor vehicle • A sentence • A heroic action • A game • A philosopher • A writer

  4. Solving Problems • 1) Heuristics and Algorithms: • The first one to figure out my password gets an automatic 100% on the next test. How will go about solving this problem? • 2) Insight: • Something extraordinarily unusual happened on the 6th of May, 1978, at 12:34pm. What was it? • Can you translate the following into a sentence? 100204180 • What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years? • Can you translate the following? YYURYYUBICURYY4ME

  5. Creativity—TED TALK-Robinson • When I say go, think of as many uses as you can for a paperclip (2 minutes) • Add up your total number of uses and divide by two (giving you an average number/minute score • Average score: 4 (8 is unusually high, 12 is very rare, and 16 makes you better than one in a thousand. • Try to think of 4-8 things that might happen if we suddenly had three arms:

  6. Why we’re not very good at it sometimes... • Fixation—inability to see a problem from a fresh perspective • Functional Fixedness • exampes • Confirmation Bias: • Political connections

  7. Heuristics: Mental Shortcuts 1) Representative 2) Availability 3) Anchoring

  8. Representative Heuristic • Representative Heuristic: • To judge the likelihood of things in terms of how well they represent particular prototypes • Linda is 31, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy in college. As a student, she was deeply concerned with discrimination and other social issues, and she participated in antinuclear demonstrations. Which statement is more likely? • A. Linda is a bank teller • B. Linda is a bank teller and active in the feminist movement. • Aka...stereotyping...we judge people by the likelihood that they fit our representation of groups to which we feel they should belong.

  9. Complete handout 7B • Availability Heuristic: when we base our judgments on how mentally available information is.

  10. Write down the last two digits of your student number • Estimate the price you would be willing to pay for the following items...

  11. 1 lb. of Belgian Chocolates

  12. Prana Yoga Mat

  13. Adobe create software

  14. Bamboo plant

  15. Anchoring Heuristic • Organize yourselves in the following categories • SS # 01-40 • SS # 41-70 • SS # 71-99 • Average your estimates for each item

  16. Extra help on heuristics... • http://www.thepsychfiles.com/2011/06/heuristics-video-rules-of-thumb-explained-episode-151/

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