Psychology 3130A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Cucurbita Maxima, Winter Squash, Cognitive Architecture

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3130A/B
• Professor: Mark Holden

Document Summary

We rely on concepts to make predictions, to infer features and attributes and to generally understand the world of objects, things and events. A hypothetical arrangement among lower-level perceptual responses, structured representations and higher order thought processes. The outside, sensory world is structured according to features, similarity and rules. We use this conceptual information to make decisions, to reason and to solve problems. At the lower levels, information has not been processed and is essentially in a raw primitive form. Primitive representations are things edges, colours, basic shape, phonemes, etc. These primitive representations receive input from the sensory system (the retina, cochlea) In order for the cognitive system to be able to plan and make decisions, these primitive representations need to be processed and structured in some way. Category refers to the objects, things or events in the outside world that can be structured into groups. Categories are groupings of things, natural or otherwise, the exist outside the mind.