COG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Prototype Theory
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No map of the conceptual structure of the theory and typicality not predicted typicality gradients not stable from constituents. We don"t know how prototypes are generated. Spatial metaphor for memory functions to increase capacity for our memory of things, is that memory is searched sequentially, through a space in which objects have a stable spatial relation, and that those objects are stable. You can use method of loci to increase memory capacity. Lots of support that memory functions like the spatial metaphor but there is proof it does not. 1)we rapidly know when we don"t know something , very hard to explain through spatial metaphor. Memory is integrative, reconstructive to make you smart, allow you to adjust. All of these things enhance memory to make you intelligent but makes you less accurate. Memory is already behaving in a more sophisticated fashion not like it was proposed as simple.
