PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter Final: Fast Mapping, Availability Heuristic, Lists Of Transformers Characters
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Psychological science chapter 8: thought and language. A concept is the mental representation of an object, event, or idea: there are very few independent concepts. You do not have just one concept for chair, table, or sofa. Each of these concepts can be divided into smaller groups with more precise labels such as arm chair or coffee table. In most cases, subjects almost always answer yes faster to sparrow than to penguin. While both are equally good fits for the definition, this occurs because sparrows are somehow more bird-like than penguins. Prototypes: categorization by comparison: prototypes are mental representations of an average category member. Ostriches are birds just as much as blue jays, but they do not resemble the rest of the family very well. This organization helps us understand how categories work in daily thought and language by identifying the basic level category, which is located in the middle row of the diagram (where the birds and fish are).
