PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Belief Perseverance, Representativeness Heuristic, Availability Heuristic
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How the brain stores and organizes the information that we have encoded into memory. How we use information to help us solve problems and make decisions. Concept is the mental representation of an object, event, or idea. Categories refer to these clusters of interrelated concepts. Categorization involves elements of perception, memory and higher-order processes like decision making and language. Classical categorization this theory claims that objects or events are categorized according to a certain set of rules or by specific set of features similar to a dictionary definition. The earliest approach to the study of categories. A variety of cognitive processes aside from classical categorization is used in determining which objects fit which category. One of the major problems found in this process is called graded membership. Graded membership the observation that some concepts appear to make better category members than others. Prototypes are mental representations of an average category member.
