PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning, Syllogism
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How do we represent knowledge? representations are all over the place a mental representation. Symbolic representation: the mental image shares some of the actual features of our memory they do not share characteristics with the subject. How are these representations organized? a lot of the knowledge isn"t necessarily a mental image but rather in words. : the categories that we form: we can also group it together to form larger groups. Organization of concepts: defining attribute model: a rule based category, we use lists of attributes to categorize things as belonging to one group or another. : they are more based on resemblance: how closely do they resemble the prototype, we have prototypes i. e. our best example, it helps explain why some examples are better than others. Problem: unclear as to where these prototypes come from\ exemplar model. How do we use knowledge? using information to determine if a statement we receive is accurate and truthful.
