Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Linear Separability, Siamese Cat, Voice-Onset Time

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Categorization and knowledge: organize the sensory world into meaningful, usable mental structures. The sensory world structured organization in memory behaviour, problem solving, induction, planning, understanding. Fundamental cognitive mechanisms are recruited to bring structure to the sensory world. Categorization allows us to look at things in different ways (ex. Putting candy in the trash would defy its normal categorization) Category = group of things that are similar to each other or share a property or properties. Behavioural equivalence class: group of diff things that you treat similarly. Concept = a mental representation of a category. Ex) concept = size, shape, ceramic, etc. of mugs. Plato = categorization cuts nature at its joints. Family resemblance: for most concepts where we have a single word to define it, the(cid:396)e is(cid:374)(cid:859)t o(cid:374)e thi(cid:374)g/does(cid:374)(cid:859)t ha(cid:448)e to (cid:271)e o(cid:374)e thi(cid:374)g that is (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) to e(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g similarities, relationships etc. How does the mind represent a category of info.