PSYB57H3 Chapter 8: Chapter 8 Concepts (pg 253-260)
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Embodied cognition: the role of cognition is to facilitate successful interaction the environment. Goal-derived category: a category invented for a specific purpose on a particular occasion. Perceptual symbols: aspects of perceptual memories that stand for events in the world and enter into all forms of symbolic activity. Category-specific deficits: selective deficits in knowledge, resulting from brain damage. Primary metaphor: a pairing of subjective experience with sensorimotor experience. Double-function words: words that refer to both physical and psychological properties (e. g. warmth). Folk biology: the concepts that ordinary people use to understand living things.
