PSY 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sudoku, Candy Land, Mental Chronometry
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How you can use knowledge to figure out how to react. Ideas in your head not things in the world. Ex: what a dog is and links to concepts such as fur. Refers to a set of related exemplars. Category is a group of related things in the world. Set of things in the world corresponding to concepts. Exemplars and instances= specific member or example of category. Explicit memory consists of a set of concertos and links between them. Concepts are linked to other concepts because they are linked together in a network. Links some concepts to sensory and motor system (ex: apple- sweet red) Helps to form a well rounded concepts. Not enough to just link but need more specifics. Specify how things are related (ex: fish lives in water) A concept is defined by its links to other concepts.
