PSYC 2265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Eleanor Rosch, Exemplar Theory, Prototype Theory
22 Apr 2017
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Psyc 2265 lecture 19 notes concepts and categories. Classification concepts and categories: concepts and categories form our identification database, knowledge of categories exists at a hierarchy of levels, superordinate-level, basic-level. The representation of concepts: the classical (definitional) view, suggests that we define concepts in memory in terms of their features, problems with the definitional view. Specific cases do not always conform to some of these features: the notion of family resemblance, an alternative to using the firm definitional view. Think of concepts being defined in terms similar to how we talk about families: defining the family in terms of their physical features. Some family members end up with sets of features that are not shared by all members. But are important in defining the similarities between certain members of the family (e. g. same hair colour, eye colour, etc. : a similar notion applied to concepts, defining concepts in a similar manner.
