PSYCO258 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Feather Duster, Temporal Lobe, Parietal Lobe

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO258
• Professor: Weimin Mou

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Imagine that you find yourself in an unfamiliar town, where you have never been before. As you walk down the street, you notice that many things are not exactly the same as what you would encounter if you were in your own town. Luckily you know a lot about cars, building, gas stations, and cats, so you have no trouble understanding what is going on. Knowledge that enables us to recognize objects and events and to make inferences about their properties. This knowledge exists in the form of concepts. his particular object. Includes all possible examples of a particular concept (cid:498)the mental representation of a class or individual(cid:499) (cid:498)the meaning of objects, events, and abstract ideas(cid:499) Example: a cat is an animal that is furry your concept of a (cid:498)cat(cid:499) Example: the category (cid:498)cats(cid:499) includes tabbies, siamese cats, persian cats, (cid:498)pointers to knowledge(cid:499)