Ch9Thinking and Language
Subject:
Psychology [1]
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Thinking Cognition: mental activity associated with processing, understanding , and communicating info To think about so many things, we group them into concepts: mental grouping of similar objects, events, or people Prototype:? The best representation of a concept (?mental img or best example that incorporates all the features we associate with a category.? I.e. A dog maybe a good example of the concept of four legged animals. Our memory of sth will shift toward the category prototype. Algorithm: A logical procedure guaranteed to solve a problem.? This method is slow but less likely to make mistakes. I.e. unscramble letters by nCr