PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Loss Aversion, Functional Fixedness, Affective Forecasting

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens C Pruessner

Document Summary

Concept: a category, or class, that includes subtypes and /or individual items. Defining attribute model: that idea that a concept is characterized by a list of features that are necessary to determine if an object is a member of a category. Exemplar model: information stored about the members of a category is used to determine category membership any concept has no single best representation, instead all the examples of category members form that concept. Accounts for the observation that some category members are more prototypical than others: the prototypes are simply members we have encountered more often. Enable us to interact with the complex reality. One theory is focused on schemas about the sequences of events in certain situations. We can employ schemas because common situations have consistent attributes, and people have specific roles in specific contexts. Scripts dictate our appropriate behaviours, and what we view as appropriate is shaped by culture.