PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Conjunction Fallacy, Availability Heuristic, Representativeness Heuristic

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Psych 101 chapter 8 (thought and language) notes. Concepts mental representations of objects, events, or ideas. Categorization the process in which these clusters are formed. Classical categorization theory that claims that objects or events are categorized according to a certain set of rules or by a specific set of features. Graded membership the observation that some concepts appear to make better category members than others: ex. If category is birds, obviously sparrow would fit better than apple. Prototypes mental rep of avg category member, categorize by resemblance: ex. Taking average of 3 most familiar birds to you prototypical bird. Semantic network interconnected set of nodes/concepts + links that join them to form a category (like a dichotomous key!) Priming how similar items have more, stronger connections as opposed to unrelated items, making it more likely for nodes in the network to be activated from even just one of these items: ex.