PSYCH207 Lecture 7: Chapter 7
5 Mar 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Concept mental representation of some object, event, or pattern that has stored in it much of the knowledge typically thought relevant to that object, event, or pattern: ex. Category class or group of similar things (objects or entities: ex. fruits, vegetables, cars, fish, cows. Categorization process by which we place things into groups called categories: allows us to make predictions and act accordingly. Note: key thing with concepts and categories is that they will be different for each individual based on their own individual experiences. In semantic priming studies, highly typical instances often led to better priming: faster reaction times likely mean that this member of a category is a good member, prototype view idealized representation of a class of objects. Answer: concepts are lists of characteristics that provide the necessary and sufficient conditions for an item to be categorized as a specific thing/concept, categorization is clear-cut, insofar as an item either belongs to a category or not.
