1 / 43

COGNITION: THINKING, PROBLEM SOLVING, CREATIVITY AND LANGUAGE

UNIT 7B. COGNITION: THINKING, PROBLEM SOLVING, CREATIVITY AND LANGUAGE. UNIT OVERIVEW. Thinking Language Thinking and Language. INTRODUCTION. Cognition (thinking) Cognitive psychologists. THINKING. CONCEPTS. Concepts Category hierarchies prototype. SOLVING PROBLEMS: STRATEGIES.

truly
Download Presentation

COGNITION: THINKING, PROBLEM SOLVING, CREATIVITY AND LANGUAGE

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. UNIT 7B COGNITION: THINKING, PROBLEM SOLVING, CREATIVITY AND LANGUAGE

  2. UNIT OVERIVEW • Thinking • Language • Thinking and Language

  3. INTRODUCTION • Cognition (thinking) • Cognitive psychologists

  4. THINKING

  5. CONCEPTS • Concepts • Category hierarchies • prototype

  6. SOLVING PROBLEMS: STRATEGIES • Algorithms • Step-by-step • Heuristic • Insight

  7. SOLVING PROBLEMS: CREATIVITY • Creativity • Strernberg’s five components • Expertise • Imaginative thinking skills • A venturesome personality • Intrinsic motivation • A creative environment

  8. SOLVING PROBLEMS: OBSTACLES TO PROBLEM SOLVING • Confirmation bias • Fixation • Mental set • Functional fixedness

  9. SOLVING PROBLEMS: OBSTACLES TO PROBLEM SOLVING • Confirmation bias • Fixation • Mental set • Functional fixedness

  10. MAKING DECISIONS AND FORMING JUDGMENTS: USING AND MISUSING HEURISTICS • The Representative Heuristic

  11. MAKING DECISIONS AND FORMING JUDGMENTS: USING AND MISUSING HEURISTICS • The Availability Heuristic

  12. MAKING DECISIONS AND FORMING JUDGMENTS: OVERCONFIDENCE • Overconfidence

  13. MAKING DECISIONS AND FORMING JUDGMENTS: THE BELIEF PRESERVERENCE PHENOMENON • Belief perseverance • Consider the opposite

  14. MAKING DECISIONS AND FORMING JUDGMENTS: THE PERILS AND POWERS OF INTUITION • Intuition • Unconscious intuition

  15. Making Decisions and Forming JudgmentsThe Effects of Framing • Framing • Framing experiments

  16. LANGUAGE

  17. LANGUAGE: INTRODUCTION • Language

  18. LANGUAGE STRUCTURE: PHONEME • Phoneme • English about 40 phonemes • Learning another language’s phonemes

  19. LANGUAGE STRUCTURE: MORPHEMES • Morpheme • Includes prefixes and suffixes

  20. LANGUAGE STRUCTURE: GRAMMAR • Grammar • Semantics • Syntax

  21. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: WHEN DO WE LEARN LANGUAGE? • Receptive language • Productive language • Babbling stage • One-word stage • Two-word stage • Telegraphic speech

  22. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: WHEN DO WE LEARN LANGUAGE?

  23. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: WHEN DO WE LEARN LANGUAGE?

  24. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: WHEN DO WE LEARN LANGUAGE?

  25. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: WHEN DO WE LEARN LANGUAGE?

  26. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: WHEN DO WE LEARN LANGUAGE?

  27. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: WHEN DO WE LEARN LANGUAGE?

  28. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: EXPLAINING LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT • Skinner: Operant Learning • Learning principles • Association • Imitation • Reinforcement

  29. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: EXPLAINING LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT • Chomsky: Inborn Universal Grammar • Language acquisition device • Universal grammar

  30. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: EXPLAINING LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT • Statistical Learning and Critical Periods • Statistical learning • Critical (sensitive) period

  31. THINKING AND LANGUAGE

  32. LANGUAGE INFLUENCES THINKING • Whorf’s linguistic determinism • Bilingual advantage

  33. THINKING IN IMAGES • Implicit memory

More Related