Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Eleanor Rosch, Equivalence Class, Family Resemblance

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

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Categorization and knowledge: organize the sensory world into meaningful, usable mental structures. The sensory world structured organization in memory behavior, problem solving, Structures can guide behaviour (inductive, deductive reasoning, problem-solving, understanding). It is how you categorize the sensory world concepts into meaningful structures: e. g. there"s a specific category for all halloween candy even though they are different candies. Fundamental cognitive mechanisms are recruited to bring structure to the sensory world. The sensory world is structures somewhat (things look a like, have the same color, move the same way ) We also used things like memory or attention to bring structure to the world. We pay attention to things in order to form concepts. Category: group of things that are similar to each other or share a property or properties. They are similar to each other and have features in common.