PSYC 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Diet Food
7 Dec 2020
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People may think about different concepts in different ways. Most people believe that natural kinds are as they are because of forces fo nature that are consistent across the years. Tend to assume more stability and homogeneity. Many concepts can be characterized in terms of their features. Need to understand the goal and some cause-and-effect. Influences by a how various elements are related to each other. Fmri scans show that different brain sites are activated when people are thinking about living things vs nonliving things, manufactured objects vs natural objects. Different types of concepts are represented in different brain areas. Anomia people lose the ability to name certain objects due to brain damage. Different types of info are essential for different concepts. Recognition of living things perceptual and visual properties. Recognition of nonliving objects functional properties. The body"s sensory and action systems play an essential role in all our cognitive processes.
