PSY 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Drools, Blue Jay, Prototype Theory

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 341
• Professor: Mauner Gail

Document Summary

Linking what we sense to what we know: perception is not enough for object recognition, once a percept is formed, we still need to associate it with something in memory, typically, this involves categorization percepts. Categorization: fundamental to almost all cognitive processes, most perception involves categorization at some level of representation. Top down: mental representations -> senses: categories are abstract mental representations that stand for what you perceive and conceive, much of our knowledge is organized in terms of categories. Diag(cid:374)osis: do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t your do(cid:272)tor to treat sy(cid:373)pto(cid:373)s i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idually (cid:894)fe(cid:448)er, chest discomfort, aches & pains, stuffy nose, headaches, sneezing, cough, tiredness/weakness) Generalization across instances of a category -> prediction. Make inferences about relationships that hold between members of category or across categories (cold? flu? meningitis?) (2) organize perceptions. Archimboldo painting (guy who was covered in fruits and flowers) Vases/profiles (a vase or two faces?) (3) understand language ambiguity resolution. Category information used to resolve perceptual ambiguities.