PSYB57H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Encephalitis, Eleanor Rosch, Implicit Learning
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A study of thinking, they described experiments about how people acquire concepts. We all use concepts (we rarely see things as unique) There are attributes in common with other instances of the concept. Each attribute can take on a number of values. Some concepts are conjunctions of attributes, but others are more complex. A disjunctive concept is one in which class membership is defined by 2+ possible sets of attributes. Ex being a canadian citizen = born in canada or being born to canadian parents or being naturalized. To understand why a attributes may be a positive instance of a concept, we must know which attributes are critical for membership in a concept and which are not. If an attribute is present in all positive instances, then it is a critical attribute (its presence is required) The process of including recurring attributes (and excluding non-recurring ones) is called abstraction. This process is likely to a composite photograph.
