PSYC 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Vehicle

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 336
• Professor: Appleton-Knapp

Document Summary

We can identify characteristic features for each category features that many (perhaps most) category members have. These are the features that enable you to recognize that a dog is a dog. Systematic reflection of the world in which we live. Reflecting beliefs about what"s central or important for the category. Rosch"s claim that there is a level of categorization. Specific items within this category seem rather different from each other. Ex. traits of moving vehicles = subordinate level within here could be cars and dogsleds. Members of a basic-level category have a lot in common. Ex. traits of a car = basic. Provides you with little new information that you didn"t already have from the basic-level category. We lose information if our categorization is too general. We gain a lot of information when we shift from a superordinate category to a basic-level category.