PSYC 2650 Chapter 9: Chapter 9
16 Nov 2017
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Ideal dog, and all judgements about dogs are made with reference to this ideal: the concept is represented by the appropriate prototype. Better members of the category than objects further from the prototype: some dogs are doggier . ; not by their ford focus: basic level categories are usually represented by a single word; more specific categories are identified only via a phrase. If asked to explain what members of a category have in common with one another, you have an easy time with basic-level categories but some difficulty with more encompassing categories. Main notion = conceptual knowledge is represented via a prototype and that we categorize by making comparisons to that prototype. In some cases, categorization relies on knowledge about specific category members (your uncle"s chair) rather than the prototype (the ideal chair): exemplar-based reasoning exemplar being defined as a specific remembered instance (an example)
