PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: University Of Manchester, Catdog, Dual Code
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Outline: organization of knowledge: concepts and different theories, organizing categories in our mind and different theories, semantic knowledge and impairments (i. e brain injury, visual imagery 1. Knowledge: concepts, categories and network, and category specific impairments. We acquire it over our life span and is fairly consistent. We won"t know where we learned it from though. For example, i know that montr al is a city in quebec, but. I won"t know where exactly i learned it from. Cognitive economy we don"t have to explain everything in extremem details, which makes conversation possible and function normally. Inferences people infer what we are saying and don"t have to think about it a lot. Or when reading a novel, the author infers that you know about a certain concept. Communication: there are different types of concepts: Natural concept: occur naturally (e. g. , plants, trees, and cats) Artifact concept: created by humans (eg. hammers, computers)
