PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Knowledge Representation And Reasoning, Family Resemblance, Mental Representation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Dan Meegan

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Definitions: what is a dog , what is the knowledge of what a dog is, maybe it is akin to a dictionary definition. Prototypes and typicality effects: definitions set boundaries for a category, however, prototype theory depicts the best way to identify a category, to characterize a. Testing the prototype notion: during a sentence verification task participants are presented with a succession of sentences, their job is to indicate whether a sentence is true or false, response time is quicker for some sentences than others. Basic level categories: certain types of categories are also privileged along with category members, usually represented in our language via a single word, specific categories are identified with a phrase. Explaining typicality data with an exemplar model: exemplar view, you categorize objects by comparing them to a mentally represented standard . For prototype theory the standard = prototype an average representing an entire category.