PSYCH207 Final: Chapter 7,8,9

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH207
• Professor: Jonathan Fugelsang

Document Summary

Conducted a clever experiment that demonstrated how specific prior examples influence categorization over and above the use of simple defining features. Experiment that demonstrated how prior example, influences categorization over use of simple defining feature. Experiment to demonstrate how specific prior examples influence categorization over and above the use of simple defining features. Looked at the degree to which item categorization of specific creatures influenced from training. Builders creatures lived in shelters built from materials available in their environment. Found that similarity to previous exemplars stored in memory influenced the categorization despite participants having a simple and sufficient categorization rule to follow. People have previously stores exemplers which influene categorization even though they have simple rules to follow ignore those rules and are influenced by the previously store exemplars. 2 distinct coding systems for representing information to be stored: Imagery: mental pictures of some sort that represent what the item looks like.