PSYCH 1F03 Lecture 8: Categories + Concepts
9 Mar 2017
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What we base decisions off, our interactions of the world: two primary cognitive mechanisms, attention helps focus finite mental resources relevant to current needs, memory recall specific thoughts/behaviour relevant to current needs. Categorization: we quickly process incoming stimuli by organizing them into categories, we are constantly categorizing information to guide decision making, four basic functions of categorizing, classification groups dissimilar objects into same category (ex. Apples: understanding understanding intentions of a situation (ex. Conflict: predicting uses past experience to know what to expect, communication uses specific words to describe ideas efficiently. Illusion of the expert: the feeling that a task must be simple for everyone, because it is simple for oneself. Rules: applying set of classification rules to categorize objects, lee brookes: psychology professor, ex. Protot(cid:455)pe theor(cid:455): (cid:449)e (cid:272)ategorize o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ts (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:373)pari(cid:374)g the(cid:373) to a(cid:374) i(cid:374)ter(cid:374)al (cid:862)(cid:271)est(cid:863) representation of a given category (aka the prototype)
