GEOLOGY 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Family Resemblance, Essentialism, Golden Retriever
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1)first preference for color and later decrease in preference for color was associated with years of schooling , basis of form and of function both rose with years of schooling (visually non-existent) Experiment with sorting rice and cards with shapes: america vs. mano farmers differential exposure to stimuli (consequence of cultural setting) can have dramatic effects on a basic a cognitive task such as sorting. United states kids believe in the human-animal-plant rule(things alive) but. Mental prototypes: idealized representations of some class of objects or events. > concepts include features that are characteristic aspects not necessary. The more characteristic features or aspects an instance has, the more likely it is to be regarded as a member of the category. Family resemblance structure of concepts: often named like this. 2) membership is a clear-cut & all-or none -> either it has all the features or it has. Problems: people have problems with number 3, for us not everything is equally.
