PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pliers, Conjunction Fallacy, Dyslexia

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

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Week 2: learning: thoughts & language chapter 8. Categories classical categories: definitions and rules concept: mental representation of an object, event, or idea categories: clusters of interrelated concepts. Classical categorization: theory claims that objects or events are categorized according to a certain set of rules or by a specific set of features. Doesn"t tell full story of how categorization works. Graded membership: observation that some concepts appear to make better category prototypes: categorization by comparison categorization and experience. Mental set: cognitive obstacle that occurs when an individual attempts to apply a routine solution to what is actually a new type of problem: setting limitations; assume we can"t go outside the lines. Broca"s and wernicke"s areas of cerebral cortex are critical to language function scientific study of language began with case w paul broca. Tan could understand speech and had normal mental abilities, but had difficulty producing speech.