PSYB57H3 Chapter 4: chapter 4
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Knowledge is often thought of as constituting particular bodies of facts, techniques, and procedures that cultures develop. Knowledge is information about the world that is stored in memory, ranging from everyday to the formal. Can also be further defined as info about world that is true, that you have justification for believing, and that is coherent. Knowledge is very important for any mental process! Without knowledge you would be unable to categorize things!!!! So categorization can allow you to draw inferences about a certain object!!! If no knowledge, then no inferences can be made!! If you do know or cannot assign any meaning to a situation or an object (when no knowledge present), than you cannot perform appropriate actions accordingly. Without knowledge, you also cannot complete partial perception. Ex if an object is blocking part of your name, you would perceive of it as not ur name, without knowledge.
