PSYCH 1X03 Lecture 7: Categories & Concepts
5 May 2015
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Words that refer to some type of category or concept: the illusion of the expert, prototype theory, the feeling that something must be simple because you are so good at it, applies to simple categories, suggests that we categorize our current experience by comparing it to average representations of various categories, average" or best member of a category, prototypes are formed through experience and can be very personal because all the objects you"ve previously experienced are averaged together, supporting: members closer to the category are categorized more quickly, against: it can not explain all findings, exemplar theory, suggests that our entire lifetime of experiences are stored and used to categorize our current experiences, collection of many examples, example: each type of dog would be remembered, a robin is more similar to your bird prototype.
