PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Unconscious Cognition, Eleanor Rosch, Folk Taxonomy
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Summary: we use concepts to organize and categorize the events we experience based on their attributes. Attributes can define concepts in several ways, as seen in examples of con-junctive, disjunctive, and relational concepts. To understand what makes something an instance of a particular concept, we need to determine the attributes that are critical for membership in it: the processes by which we acquire and use concepts have been studied extensively. Bruner used selection and reception tasks to observe and test different strategies used in concept acquisition, such as abstraction, conservative focusing, and successive and simultaneous scanning. However, the classical approach has been criticized for studying artificial concepts constructed in a lab rather than real-world concepts that people actually do acquire and use. Learning complex rules: implicit vs explicit learning: learning that takes place unintentionally versus learning that takes place intentionally, cognitive unconscious hypothesis: the hypothesis that implicit learning represents an evolutionary primitive form of unconscious cognition.
