Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mental Image, Gender Role, Spatial Ability

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Lynn Jackson

Document Summary

Concepts: a mental category that groups objects, relations, activities, abstractions, etc, represent ideas that we develop over time, we learn overtime the differences between entities that describe similarities and differences. Basic concepts: concepts that have a moderate number of instances and that are easier to acquire than those having few or many instances, dog, cat. Prototype: an especially representative example of a concept, mental image, ideas, etc. Proposition: a unit of meaning that is made up of concepts and expresses a single idea, an association formed in memory, concepts associated with a term come to mind. Integrated mental network of knowledge, beliefs, and expectations concerning a particular topic or aspect of the world: everything that comes to mind when you think about a term or topic, stereotypes are a type schema. For example gender role stereotypes in association to profession. Children 5-9 are more rigid on gender stereotypes.