PSYB57H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Encephalitis, Implicit Learning, Unconscious Cognition
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Criterial attribute: an attribute that is required in order for something to qualify as an instance of a concept. Abstraction: the process of including recurring attributes and excluding non-recurring ones. To abstract is to take away from when you abstract recurrent attributes from a set of positive instances you take away from all the others. Conservative focusing: actively formulating hypotheses and selecting instances to see if your hypotheses is correct by focusing on one attribute at a time and by selecting instances that vary only in that attribute. Focus gambling: selecting instances that vary from the first positive instance in more than one attribute (you"re basically gambling and picking random cards this strategy is based on luck) Successive scanning: involves formulating a single hypothesis and testing it by selecting instances until the correct one emerges (black square is your hypotheses so you"ll keep selecting cards with that until it"s disconfirmed/confirmed)
