PS261 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Hominidae, Observational Learning
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Serial pattern learning represents one type of cognitive organization. An even more basic form involves perceptual concept learning; stimuli that vary in their physical properties can be grouped together/associated with a single response through categorization of concept learning. Basic level perceptual categorization permits us to recognize our car as the same vehicle regardless of our angle of view/how dirty it may be. People form more abstract categories such as same vs different. Perceptual categorization represents a balance between stimulus discrimination and stimulus generalization. Perceptual concepts have two important and complementary characteristics: generalization within a category, and discrimination between categories. Evidence of generalization to novel exemplars is critical for demonstrations of perceptual concept learning. Orthographic info: distinguishing between letter sequences that consistute words/nonwords based on the relative probability of certain letters occurring next to each other in english words. Perceptual concept learning is a form of stimulus equivalance learning.
