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Lecture Notes

So many things that we talk about in the first part of this chapter relate to the field of cognition and cognitive psychology, where we want to know more about mental processes, by which we're going to receive information from the environment, make it meaningful in some way, retrieve it when it's necessary, and also to share that when communicating with others. Well, with mental representations, what we're really going to look at here are what are some of those ingredients of thought, what are the ways in which thinking occurs in the brain? How can we conceptualize that and better understand the ways in which cognition takes place? Well, as you can see, we're going to be looking at different representations—schemas, scripts, mental models, couple different  kinds of concepts, propositions, and then images and cognitive maps. Some of these we're going to talk about in this lecture; others will be concepts that you'll cover on your own.