Psychology › Section G · Thinking and intelligence › Topic G.1
What is cognition?
You recognise a dog you have never met as a dog, and you know what to do in a café you have never visited. This topic explains the mental tools that make this possible, concepts, prototypes and schemas, and why the same tools that make thinking fast can also lead it astray.
In this topic
- Thinking as a subject of science
- Concepts: the mind's categories
- Prototypes and typicality
- Natural and artificial concepts
- Worked example: classifying concepts
- Schemas: clusters of knowledge
- Role schemas and event schemas
- Worked example: when a script fills the gaps
- Habits as powerful scripts
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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