Psychology 3130A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Triangle Inequality, Modus Ponens, Circular Reasoning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3130A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Similarity can be a diagnostic tool (problem solving, analytical) Making predictions (for when you don"t have specific knowledge about certain properties of an object) City block space: when you perceive each dimension as a separate entity. Fish tail, shape, colour (each feature separately) Euclidean space: compare the items as a whole. Direct line, the shortest space between two objects is a straight line. The geometric model assumes that you have calculated dissimilarity. Psychological space is analogous to physical space i think this is the central one. Please give an example of one of these violations. Minimality: a thing must be closer to itself than to any other object. This is violated by letter comparisons: c is perceived to be more similar to o than w is to itself inter-letter confusion. Measured by time taken to identify (w takes longer, it has more features) Symmetry: comparison order matters therefore it violates the idea of psychological space being analogous with physical space.