PSY-B - Psychology PSY-B 340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Situated Cognition, Semantic Memory, Eleanor Rosch
25 Oct 2016
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Our knowledge often depends on the context that surrounds us. Helps up determine location, read sentences, solve problems, make decisions. Inference: refers to the logical interpretations and conclusions that were never part of the original stimulus material. Semantic memory: our organized knowledge about the world. Situated cognition approach: we make use of info in the immediate environment or situation. We must not focus on the knowledge the individual possesses but also how one comes to posses that knowledge. Knowledge possessed by a 4-year-old is much different then what is possessed by an 18 year old. This observation shows that the way we process, interpret, and interact with our external world changes as a function of how we currently understand it. If the item is similar to the prototype, you include that item within the category. which they are representative of their category. (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)ers, a(cid:374)d it (cid:272)o(cid:374)ti(cid:374)ues o(cid:374) through the (cid:272)ategory"s (cid:374)o(cid:374)protoypi(cid:272)al (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)ers.
