PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Availability Heuristic, Representativeness Heuristic, Belief Perseverance
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Divided into smaller groups with more precise labels e. g arm chair,coffee table. A concept is the mental representation of an object, event, or idea. Psychologists use the term categories to refer to these clusters of interrelated concepts. We form these groups using a process called categorization. Classical categorization; this theory claims that objects or events are categorized according to a certain set of rules or by a specific set of feature. Graded membership the observation that some concepts appear to make better category members than others. Prototypes are mental representations of an average category member. Activating the individual concept for apple makes connected nodes in the network more likely to become activated, a phenomenon known as priming . Semantic network, an interconnected set of nodes (or concepts) and the links that join them to form a category. Linguistic relativity (or the whorfian hypothesis) the theory that the language we use determines how we understand the world.
