PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Exemplar Theory, Prototype Theory, Pattern Recognition
22 Sep 2016
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Nar (non-analytic reasoning) is a component of diagnostic reasoning at all levels in dermatology, electrocardiography and psychiatry. Retrieval process is rapid and is not available to retrospection. Enhance teaching through the learning of multiple examples and to supplement the process with analytical de-biasing strategies experts and novices was that experts generated better (i. e. more accurate) hypotheses. _forward reasoning - all data gathering is directed to confirm this tentative diagnosis. experts do possess extensive encapsulated analytical and mechanistic knowledge that can be accessed as needed (but rarely is). How can it be that experts, with minimal information, are able to advance tentative hypotheses about the diagnoses, psychological research on everyday categorisation. Categorization applies knowledge learned about a limited set of objects to a potentially infinite class of new, previously unseen, objects. 2 theories to explain the process of categorisation: prototype theory: assumes that a person"s experience with individual exemplars is averaged into a prototype of the category.
