PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Cn Tower, Temporal Lobe, Semantic Network

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Michael Inzlicht

Document Summary

Not every bird fits as well into bird category. Tested by reaction time of recognition by participants. Prototypes: mental representations of an average category member. We use both organizations, depends on complexity and resemblance: semantic network: interconnected set of nodes and links that join them to form a category. Organized in hierarchy, we use basic-level category when speaking (middle row). There"s bird in your yard. vs there"s an animal/robin in your yard. Easier to mentally connect robin" to bird" than animal". Connection closer together: categories and the brain. Damage to temporal lobe causes patients to not be able to recognize categories of things. Ex: blue-green in english, no word for blue or green in the dani people"s language. Ex: following exact instructions off google maps to go to cn tower: heuristics: strategies that stem from prior experiences and provide an educated guess as to what is the most likely solution.