Cognition Cognition Thinking n All the mental activities

+ Cognition

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

+ Organizing Information: Concepts and Prototypes Draw or describe each of the following Concepts n Bird n Color n Triangle n Motor vehicle n A sentence n A heroic action n A game n A philosopher n A writer Desk Stool Recliner Chair

+ Solving Problems n 1) Heuristics and Algorithms: n n 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: n Something extraordinarily unusual happened on the 6 th of May, 1978, at 12: 34 pm. What was it? n Can you translate the following into a sentence? 100204180 n What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years? n Can you translate the following? YYURYYUBICURYY 4 ME

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

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

+ Heuristics: Mental Shortcuts 1) Representative 2) Availability 3) Anchoring

+ Representative Heuristic n 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? n n A. Linda is a bank teller n B. Linda is a bank teller and active in the feminist movement. Representative Heuristic: To judge the likelihood of things in terms of how well they represent particular prototypes Aka. . . stereotyping. . . we judge people by the likelihood that they fit our representation of groups to which we feel they should belong.

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

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

+ 1 lb. of Belgian Chocolates

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+ Bamboo plant

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

+ Extra help on heuristics. . . n http: //www. thepsychfiles. com/2011/06/heuristics-video-rules-ofthumb-explained-episode-151/