PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Speech Production, Decision-Making, Eleanor Rosch
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Ability to form concepts and categories is investigated. Language research began with asl as a tool to see if animals could communicate with humans. Animal research also demonstrates the ability to apply concepts and categories. Alex the parrot: who could identify out loud how many blocks, what type of material (such as wool), and what color (green and blue) Thought : an extension of perception and memory. Can take a mental image (such as a jack o lantern) and manipulate it (turn it around in and manipulated. your head). particular group. Concepts : a mental representation of a category; we often recognize an object as a member of a. When prompted to think about food , we won"t think about chair and table because neither are food to us. Prototypes : we rate things based on their similarity to models or prototypes which represent the.
