PSYCH 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Semantic Network, Connectionism, Spreading Activation
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Conceptual knowledge knowledge that enables us to recognize objects and events and to make inferences about their properties. All possible examples of a particular concept. Process by which we place items in categories. Putting item into category based on whether it fits definition of category suitable for geometric objects but not natural and human-made objects family resemblance things in a category resemble one another in a number of ways. Allows for variation w/i a category categorization is based on determining how similar an object is to some standard representation of a caategory. Membership in a category is determined by comparing an item to a prototype that represents the category close resemblance to a prototype in catergory. Based on an average of members of a category that are commonly experienced. Strong, positive, linear relationship between prototypicality and rt. Procedure used to determine how rapidly ppl could answer questions about an object"s category typicality effect.
