PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Inductive Reasoning, Metacognition, American Sign Language
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Humans are amazing, we have built civilizations and cured diseased. But we have also created ward and products that slowly kill us. Sure we are, its just our intelligence is complex ad intermixes with out patterns of judgment and decision making which aren"t perfect. Concepts are important for cognition: mental category that groups objects, activities or abstractions with common properties. Elephant, dog, and car are all mammals. Baseball, basketball and hockey are all sports. Apples, hamburgers and ice cream are all food: having concepts help us make decision easier; a new mammal, sport, or food will be easier to understand because of our existing concept. Easier to acquire basic concepts than concepts with few or many instances. Apple is a basic concept: more instances that mcintosh , children learn these first, adults use them most because they convey the most information. Different instances of a concept will have different features: not all apples are red, not all cats have fur.
