PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8.1: Semantic Network, Linguistic Relativity

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

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Concept a mental representation of an object, event, or an idea (ex. Although you might think the word table" can be its own concept, really you can further divide that into multiple topics like coffee table or dinner table) You can clump many objects into one generalized word (ex. You can clump together table, chair, sofa, all as furniture). These are called categories clusters of interrelated concepts. 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 (ex. One of the problems with classical categorization is graded membership the observation that some concepts appear to make better category members than others. Scientists use a technique called sentence-verification technique where the volunteers wait for a sentence of an object on the screen to see if that object fits the definition.