PSYCH 2H03 Lecture Notes - Extrapolation, Golden Retriever, Carambola

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2H03
• Professor: Sandra Thoon

Document Summary

The concept of a dog, concept of a birthday party. Concepts are more generic than memory not tied to a specific episode. Generic memories are things you know without specifically knowing where you know them from. Including stuff you never even thought of as knowing : including schemata: what is in a professor"s office, what you do at a restaurant. How do we know that something belongs to the category dog : concepts and cats aren"t the same thing as words. We use words to describe cats, but they are not exactly the same: eg. Big, huge, large: you have al kind of concepts that you don"t have a word for, and some concepts you have many words for, ex. Between your nose and mouth you know what it is, the concept, may not know it"s a philtrum. Category: the set of entities or examples picked out by the concept. We are prone to putting things into bins (categorizing)