PSYC 2000 Study Guide - Eleanor Rosch, Animal Communication, Mental Model
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Cognitive building blocks- mental images, concepts, and language: mental images- nonverbal mental representations of a sensory experience- can be exceptionally powerful. a. Images allow us to think in nonverbal ways. Concepts- mental categories for classifying specific people, things, or events. We decide what is most probable or most sensible, given the facts at hand. It is not sensible to put lions in the concept of birds. Rosch- we rely on degree of category membership. Language- a flexible system of symbols that enables us to communicate our ideas, thoughts, and feelings: language has long been considered a defining feature of human ii. cognition. In one way or another, all animals communicate. Stages of language development: prelinguistic stage, three basic cries; hunger, anger, and pain, cooing stage. They leave out articles: overgeneralize-applying rules of grammar to cases that are exceptions to the rule. (mans instead of men)
