PSYC 205 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Fusiform Face Area, Amygdala, Prosopagnosia
13 Oct 2016
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Categorization- cognitive process of classifying items into groups based on one or more common features. Items within a category must be distinguishable, even though they share common features: a category is not a collection of identical elements, but a group of separate units that are held together by common characteristics. Discrimination- distinguishing items based on one or more distinct features. Concepts- the abstract set of rules that define membership in a category, or the mental criteria which allow stimuli, events, or ideas to be grouped together. Not necessary to see the interior or to view an object moving to make other attributions about it (you see a car on the outside- you assume it has a steering wheel) Difference between categories and concepts, is that concepts involve mental representation of group attributes that do not depend on immediate interaction with the environment. Subjects display categorization by responding in the same way to items within a category.
