PSYC-1105EL Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Conjunction Fallacy, Representativeness Heuristic, Availability Heuristic
21 Jan 2017
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Prosopagnosia: a common disorder where it is difficult for one to recognize faces. Concept: is the mental representation of an object, event, or idea. Classical categorization: this theory claims that objects or events are categorized according to a certain set of rules or by a specific set of features. Graded membership: the observation that some concepts appear to make better category members than others. Prototypes: are mental representations of an average category member. Semantic network: an interconnected set of nodes (or concepts) and the links that join them to form a category. Nodes are circles that represent concepts and links connect them together. Basic-level category: the most frequently used level, in both thought and language, is located in the middle row of the diagram. Basic-level categories are the terms used most often in conversation. They are the level at which prototypes exist. They are the level at which most thinking occurs.
