Psychology 3130A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Golden Retriever, Linear Separability, Central Tendency

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3130A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Sensory world lower levels: info in raw, primitive form, receive input from sensory system. Structured organization in memory: process and structure primitive info. Behaviour, problem-solving, induction, planning, understanding higher levels. Objects, things, events in outside world that can be structured into groups. Groupings of things, natural or otherwise, that exist outside the mind. Allow quick, accurate judgments but can come w/cost of misclassification. Form categories to: reflect the natural structure of the world, help achieve goals. Stimulus generalization: natural tendency to generalize, universal law of stimuli generalization. New stimulus will be a function of how similar it is to previously. Efficiency seen stimulus: reduction in the amount of info to be retained about a whole group of things, behavioural equivalence class. Although a group or class of things may be different and a lot, we behave towards them in the same way. Different food cans, but react the same to the sound of one opening: cognitive efficiency.