PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Lewis Terman, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Robert Sternberg
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Mental representation of the shared features of related objects, events, or other stimuli. Classification of objects to form concepts: categories. Prototype: compare new instance to the category"s prototype. Best or most typical member of a category. Brain damage prevents recognition of objects that belong to a particular category thought the ability to recognize objects outside the category is undisturbed. Make decisions by how likely something is t happen, judging the value of the outcome, and then multiplying the two. Good at estimating frequency (percentage), but not probability. Use shortcuts" called heuristics" to make decisions: availability bias, conjunction fallacy, representativeness heuristic. Give different answers to the same problem depending on how the problem is phrased. Make decisions based on what previously invested in the situation. Members have features characteristic of category members but may not be possessed by every member: prototype theory. Prototype: best or most typical member of a category category"s prototype.
