PSYC 364 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Semantic Memory, Explicit Memory, Mental Representation
22 Nov 2016
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Work desk metaphor: steps, reading and consulting files and information: Knowledge: knowledge, memory for faces, understanding, other information: Conceptual knowledge: conceptual knowledge, ability to recognize objects and events, make inferences about properties, importance of categorization, placing elements into groups, extremely important in cognition, definition of a category: All possible examples of a concept (e. g. , student; notion of student can be very specific of broad, but the category of student includes all those. Categories: pointers to knowledge, shorthand version of more general information about items, helps to characterise differences: Definitional approach: using a formal definition to determine membership, works well for certain categories (e. g. , logico-mathematical terms). Knowledge: does not work well for most others (e. g. , bachelor: male, never married; 18-year-old or a 65-year-old catholic priest is not a bachelor (basically, there are limits)): Prototype approach: prototype, average or typical representation of all members in a category: Plato said that we imagine the ideal of a thing (e. g. ,
