PSYC-233 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Dispositio, Self-Control, Connectionism
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Also contain specific cases which serve as exemplars; can form around a best idea called a prototype, an ideal, Fuzzy set: a characteristic sometimes in a schema and not defining it (ie flying for bird schema) Used to recognize experience by combining the new information and comparing it with whats in a schema. Default: something you assume to be true unless told otherwise. Memory is selective; if you change a schemas you change what becomes encoded and what you look for. More likely to encode information which fits the schema, not contrary evidence (resistant to change) Cognitive theorists view people as their own scientist, predicting the world; we impose organization via schemas, and make inferences about the rest. Schema: a mental organization of information (categories with many elements such as images times and places) or a best actual member. Semantic memory:organized by meaning, for objects and concepts- often develop out of episodic memory/experience.
