PSY270H1 Chapter 8: Chapter 8
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Chapter 8: representation and organization of knowledge in memory: converging operations: the use of multiple approaches and techniques to address a problem. Concepts and categories: natural categories: groupings that occur naturally in the world. Birds, trees: artefact categories: groupings that are designed or invented by humans to serve particular purposes or functions. Things you need to write a paper: nominal kind: is the arbitrary assignment of a label to an entity that meets a certain set of prespecified conditions or rules ex. A widow is a woman whose husband is deceased. Inheritance- implies that lower-level items inherit properties of higher-level items. Schema for animals includes schema for cows, schema for apes: schemas encompass typical, general facts that can vary slightly from one specific instance to another. Schema for mammals, usually have fur, but includes humans and porcupines- less hairy and more prickly: schemas can vary in degree of abstraction.
