PHL 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Eleanor Rosch
26 Sep 2020
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Emphasized featural rules that delineate the category and thus define the concept. Emphasizes categories as strict classes two core assumptions: 1. Idea of necessary and sufficient conditions as qualifiers for category membership: 2. Efficiency (concept stores general info with greater cognitive efficiency than many unique individual representation cat food jay example) Stimulus generalization (guided by similarity to generate responses to novel stimuli) Rosch typicality effect study: some exemplars share attributes of more members of the category and these examples are favored, problematic for the classical view should be no privilege within a category. Basic level difference between categories to not mistake them. A high level of within category similarity: members of a category tend to be similar. A low level of between category similarity: members of contrasting categories tend to be dissimilar. Naming listed first (not brand: faster, children learn first, short names.
