PSYCH207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Eleanor Rosch, Family Resemblance, Grunge
13 Mar 2017
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Key definitions examples of categorizations classical view of categorization and its problems that has stored in it much of the knowledge typically though relevant to that object, event, or pattern. In summary: concepts help us to establish order in our knowledge base, concepts allow us to categorize giving us mental buckets in which to sort the things we encounter, categorization allows us to make predictions and act accordingly. It includes features that are characteristic and typical, rather than necessary and sufficient. It is thought to be formed by averaging the category members have encountered in the past (cid:498)you have experienced throughout your lifetime a number of examples of a specific category(cid:499) (high to low prototypical: 1. We have in our mind a prototype, which is more of a fuzzy representation of the most characteristic features of these animals: 2. Key is that this takes into account each of our own individual and unique experiences: 3.
