PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: George Lakoff, Family Resemblance, Concept Learning
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We tend to sort every event into a particular category to see it as an instance of a particular concept: each concept takes on a number of values: e. g. pages, prints (large/small), cover (hard/ soft) Study of thinking: how ppl acquire concepts based on the attributes that define membership in a category. Conjunctive concept: positive instance: a card is an instance of a particular concept, negative concept: a card does not contain the right attributes. Selection task: a concept formation task in which the participant selects instances from those presented by the experimenter: used to task what strategies participants would use to acquire a simple conjunctive concept. You"ll be given one of the cards and told it was a positive instance of the concept and challenge you to figure out what the concept was. Then you"re invited to choose any card you liked and will be told if it"s positive or negative instance of the concept.
