PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Exemplar Theory, Ibuprofen, Prototype Theory
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Helps you decide your best course of action in situations. Ability to quickly categorize incoming stimuli to that of the ideas in the situation: major assignment worth a good chuck of the grade lets get started. Constantly categorizing your experiences to guide your decision making: wake up with headache place situation under hangover" know you should take advil. Classification allows you to treat objects that appear differently as belonging together: different colored apples all apples. Understanding categorize a scene and what is happening in that situation. Predicting categorizing your current experience and comparing it to similar experiences in memory, you can make prediction about your current situation: dog in front of you wagged tail = happy. Communication words refer to some type of category or concept, and using the category name allows for efficient communication. Feeling that something must be simple because you are so good at it is. Simple categories susceptible to the illusion of the expert.
