PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Temporal Lobe, Premotor Cortex, Eleanor Rosch
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Conceptual knowledge is knowledge that enables us to recognize objects and events and to make inferences about their properties. It exists in the form of concepts: a mental representation of a class or individual. One way we organize all our knowledge about the world is categorization: categories are groups of objects that belong together because they belong to the same class of objects (houses/furnitures/schools). Categorization happens whenever we place an object in a category- doing so allows us to know a lot about the said object and also explain otherwise strange behaviours about it. Pomegranate" for fruit)- this is called typicality effect: smith and coworkers tested this using sentence verification technique: they are presented statements and they answer either. Yes" or no": prototypical objects are named first, prototypical objects are affected more by priming than non-typical members, rosch demonstrated this: they heard primes (names of colours), they had to decide whether the two colours were the same.
