PSY 164 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Children'S Book Council Of Australia, Psy, Hierarchical Organization
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Concepts: abstract representations that represent something occurring in the world. Concepts are a dictionary entry in your brain. As you add onto the definition, you"re accidentally excluding other things not. Table definition: a flat surface with at least one leg that can stand on its own and hold things on top of it. Generic and can be mistaken for something else that"s like it. Some concepts are more tightly tied to a category than other concepts. Affects the speed with which you understand what"s going on. The more typical it is, the faster they"ll confirm. Use one concept to speed recognition of another. Faster with instance first/category last: robin primes bird, but bird doesn"t prime robin (category = bird, instance = robin), replace robin with goose, the reading time will take even longer. Set of features that most concepts in a category share. Checking off most, but not all, of the boxes. One of the things we create: prototype.
