Psychology 2135A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mental Representation, Knowledge Representation And Reasoning, Relate

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Minda

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Categorization and knowledge: we organize the sensory world into meaningful structures, structured organizations are the fundamental cognitive mechanisms recruited to bring structure to the sensory world. We still recognize it is a coffee cup. Concept: mental representation of a category, represents the characteristic of that concept. If we see a coffee mug shaped like a gun, that might fit in our category of coffee mugs, but not in the concept. Why categorize: all intelligent systems categorize information, efficient, otherwise would be overwhelmed with information, relate new information to things we already know. Computational complexity: categorical structures mirror real world structures, most human categories represent specific human goals. Categorization: plato: (cid:862) (cid:272)ut (cid:374)atu(cid:396)e at its joi(cid:374)ts(cid:863, there is a natural way to cut an animal, rather than chopping it up randomly, we categorize in a natural way, like distinguishing between a tree and a river.