PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8.1: Semantic Network, Implicit Memory, Prosopagnosia

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Prosopagnosia: the concept of having difficulty recognizing faces. Concept: the mental representation of an object, event, or idea. Categories: the clusters of interrelated concepts, groups are formed using a process called categorization. Difficult to define categorization as there are different elements of perception. 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. Definitions help people in explaining items in situations. A triangle can be a figure, having three angles and three sides . Problem with classical categorization graded membership: the observation that some concepts appear to make better category members than others. Sentence-verification technique: volunteers wait for a sentence to appear in front of them on a computer screen and respond as fast as they can with yes or no answer to statements such as a sparrow is a bird .