Psychology Chapters 8 & 9

Cognition language creativity and intelligience 

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Cognition
The procss of thinking or mentally processing informaiton (images concepts words rules and symbols)
Concept
A generalized idea representing a class of related objects or events
Concept formation
The process of classifying information into meaningful categories
Positive instance
Object or event that belongs to th concept class example a german shepherd belongs to the dog class
Negative instance
Object or evet that does not belong to the concept class example a cat does not belong to the dog class

Types of concept formations
Conjunctive concept, relational concept, disjunctive, concept
Conjunctive concept
A class of objects that have two or more featue in common example motorcycles has an engine AND wheels
Relational concept
A concept defined by the relationship between featurs of an object or between an object and its surrounding example greater than or lopsided or is south of
Disjunctive concept
A concept defined by th presence of at least one of sesveral possilel feature example a strike in baseball is a swing and a miss OR a good pitch and no swing
More concept terms
Prototypes
denotative meaning
connotative meaning
Prototypes
An ideal model used as a prime example of a particular concept example a robin is a good prototype for a bird; an ostrich is not
Denotative meaning
Th exact dicitonary definition of a word or concept; its objective meaning
Connotative meaning
The subjective, personal, or emotional meaning of a word or concept
Language
Language
semantics
phonemesm
morphemes
grammar
syntax
The definition for language
Words or symbols, and rules for combining them, that are used for thinking and commuicaiton