PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Lexical Decision Task, Availability Heuristic, Representativeness Heuristic
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Concept: is the mental representation of an object, event, or idea. Categories: refer to these cluster of interrelated concepts. Chapter: 8. 1 the organization of knowledge: 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 features. Graded membership: the observation that some concepts appear to make better category members than others. Prototypes: are mental representations of an average category member o o. Allow for classification by resemblance i. e. prototypical bird has features from other different birds combined together. Semantic network: an interconnected set of nodes or concepts and the links that join them to form a category o o o. Links: connect them together to represent the structure of a category s well as relationships among diff categories. Hierarchy: consists of a structure moving from general to very specific.
