PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes -Exemplar Theory, Prototype Theory, Visual Acuity

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

Document Summary

Testing the prototype notion: sentence verification task: research participants are presented with a succession of sentences. Their job is to indicate (by pressing the appropriate button) whether each sentence is true or false) Apple fruit) are also privileged in a picture-identification task: picture-identification task: a task in which a person is shown simple pictures (often line drawings) and must indicate, as rapidly as possible, what the picture shows (e. g. a dog , In one study, participants read a story, and then after a delay their memory for the story is tested. If the story contained specific terms, participants often (falsely) recalled that they had heard something more general. She noticed that her jeans were stained remembered as she noticed that her pants were stained . Exemplars: exemplar-based reasoning: reasoning that draws on knowledge about specific category members, rather than drawing on more general information about the overall category (a specific remembered instance)