Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Linear Separability, Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research, Central Tendency

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Categorization and knowledge: organize the sensory world into meaningful, usable mental structures. The sensory world structured organization in memorybehaviour, problem solving, Fundamental cognitive mechanisms are recruited to bring structure to the sensory world. Concept: the group of things that are similar to each other or share a property or properties, a behavioural equivalence class a group of different things that you treat similarly, a mental representation of a category. All intelligent systems categorize information: efficiency, would be overwhelmed w/information, learning would be impossible w/out categories. Why do we have the categories we do: categorical structure mirrors real world structure, most human categories represent specific human goals. Family resemblance: good &bad ways to divide the natural world up is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual (cid:498) cut nature at its joints(cid:499) plato (cid:498) creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is requires thinker if a feeling (cid:498)hullo!