PSYCO258 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Eleanor Rosch, Semantic Network, Psych
19 Mar 2016
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No t e b o o k: cognitive psych. Conceptual knowledge: knowledge that enables people to recognize objects and events and to make inferences about their properties. Concepts: a mental representation of a class or individual, or the meaning of objects, events, and abstract ideas. Category: groups of objects that belong together because they belong to the same class of objects. Categorization: the process by which objects are placed in categories. Definitional approach to categorization: the idea that we can decide whether something is a member of a category by determining whether the object meets the definition of the category. An issue is that not all members of everyday categories have the same features, but still are categorized together. Family resemblance: in considering the process of categorization, the idea that things in a particular category resemble each other in a number of ways.
