PSYO 3092 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Llama, Functional Fixedness, Mental Representation
14 Jan 2016
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Concepts and categories are very useful: they allow us to make predictions about what to expect from individual entities that we have never seen before. Category: a mentally represented collection of psychological entities (e. g. , objects, people, actions, or events) May refer to real things or to things that do not exist. Concept: a psychological grouping together of entities, objects, events, or even characteristics on the basis of some more or less functional commonality, including some understanding of their relationship. More powerful that categories because entities that are included in a concept are in some ways functionally related. Can infer more from concepts than categories. An implicit classification of perceptual stimuli into discrete sets despite a lack of physical discontinuity in the stimuli (e. g, colors, facial expressions, and consonant sounds) Our mind organized some of the sensory inputs into perceptual categories.
