PSYCH 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: Target Practice, Ludwig Wittgenstein

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2H03
• Professor: Ellen Maclellan

Document Summary

Accuracy and adequacy: we do make errors, but generally, our memories are really good. We often rely on heuristics to recall information. Selection of what to encode, store and retrieve. Idea that human memory designed to predict the future: more connections better chance of retrieval. What makes for good connections: the most meaningful connections. New memories should be able to interface with old memories: wewant to be able to organize new memories according to existing knowledge structures. Midterm 3: chapter 8, 9 , 10, 11, 12* The set of entities / examples described by the concept. Ex: concept of dogs" elicits a bunch of different categories. Functions of concepts: classification, understanding, prediction, reasoning, communication. All concepts have defining features or attributes. Ex: if you want to define a dog" then it should be able to pass specific rules: ex: all dogs have four legs, but we don"t find this in reality: some dogs are amputees.